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Agreed, seeing something changing out of the corner of my eye is very off-putting.
by retox 4y ago
Agreed, seeing something changing out of the corner of my eye is very off-putting.
- nicbou 4y agoHm, I can see where the criticism comes from. Is there a way to keep this feature that would make it more acceptable?
- layer8 4y agoPersonally I don’t think it’s worth the benefits over just having a TOC at the top of the page, as is otherwise customary. It’s different if this is a web site or web app where you have an account, and where users can permanently enable/disable it as an option when they prefer it. But on a public web page for a general audience, it always introduces friction by being visually distracting (because it doesn‘t scroll with the rest of the page), or by hiding due to responsive layout (requiring the browser width to be adjusted, or having to toggle it by mouse instead of scrolling to the top by keyboard), and so on.
- nicbou 4y agoFair point. I personally end up using those a lot, especially in articles that I skim (instead of reading end to end). I'll start collecting data on its use, because people on the orangey site (including me) tend to have opinions that don't represent the average user.