5 ms·
A useless infinite scroll experiment
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- dolin_ch 7mo agoSmall experiment about infinite scrolling. It converts scrolling into a measurable distance. The more you scroll, the more the site reminds you you're still scrolling.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoOn smartphones for real-world use ! ;)
- deleted 7mo ago[deleted]
- gus_massa 7mo agoCan you add an option to switch to feet? :)
- dolin_ch 7mo agoBut there is no end
- nixass 7mo agoWhy not Fahrenheits while at it?
- gus_massa 7mo agoAt some point the webpage says something like "You are deeper than the Mariana Trench" and also make a few jokes with other comparisons. I expect USA people to prefer to avoid SI units. If the site where showing temperatures °C and °F option would be even more important. I can translate from feet and miles ($feets/3 and miles*1.5) and get a good estimation, but I can't translate from °F to °C in my head and know if I must use a hoodie or not.
- sebastiennight 7mo agoMost people scroll using their thumbs. Your touchscreen must be quite large
- dolin_ch 7mo agoAs large as possible ;)
- leosanchez 7mo agoDid I hear a moan after pausing around 200m ?
- dolin_ch 7mo agoYou're not mad
- fuidani 7mo agoyou made my day!
- dolin_ch 7mo agoAhahah, really happy
- rkomorn 7mo ago"This scroll will get you nowhere." I disagree. It has gotten me to being entertained.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoOhhhh, thank you, I'm delighted
- totetsu 7mo agoiOS health app could track this like steps. Total distance scrolled on your phone.
- mrunseen 7mo agoThere was a iOS jailbreak tweak called Treadmill where it exactly done that. Pretty cool to me. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/31/ryan-petrich-treadmill/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/31/ryan-petrich-treadm...
- dolin_ch 7mo agoI didn't know that, thank you for the information and for your feedback
- 2Gkashmiri 7mo agoNever owned an iPhone after 3GS because it became prohibitively expensive. I have so many memories of cydia and there was this itools, some Chinese software that let me do more than iTunes. Those were the days. I was rocking an html lockdscreen which was pretty cool. When I got hands on original iPhone back in 2008, I remember my PC having less ram, less storage as that was a handmedown. It was freaking cool to have more compute in hand than what my xp machine did.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoThe good old days! Still on iPhone, but no more jailbreaking... too restrictive.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoAhahah, that would be an excellent idea
- sebastiennight 7mo agoNice. I will now start using it when I feel a compulsive need to escape boredom during unfocused Zoom calls. A few remarks: - some sentences (many) seem to be cut off on desktop. I only see, eg. "content to keep the site from going viral" or "around here. We're not that ambitious". - It's interesting that for users who have their device set to the superior scrolling direction ("reverse" scrolling, drag your fingers up to see what's at the top), your website behaves correctly but gives the opposite feeling. It's the first webpage where I've ever felt like "normal" scrolling (drag your fingers down to pull the page down) would be more natural. - scrolling for long enough to get the first sound effect was quite a surprise
- dolin_ch 7mo agoLooking forward to your next Zoom meeting ;) That's strange about the cut-off sentences. What device are you using? I'll check it out, because I'm not having any problems on my end. Thank you so much for the great feedback, I really appreciate it!
- orthoxerox 7mo agoFinally, a website that makes me feel like activating a superpower when I unlock the scroll wheel on my mouse.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoAhahah. But it's more for your thumb, on mobile.
- lekiros 7mo ago[dead]
- adzm 7mo agoWon't this lose precision as you near the limits of a double? Or is it using BigInt behind the scenes?
- dolin_ch 7mo agoIt's just standard JS numbers (IEEE-754 doubles), not BigInt. The distance is accumulated in millimeters, so even if someone somehow scrolled hundreds of kilometers we'd still be far below the 2^53 integer precision limit. So precision loss shouldn't realistically happen.
- nayuki 7mo agoWindows autoscroll makes this game too easy. This feature was introduced a very long time ago, possibly with the IntelliMouse in the year 1996. Press on the scroll wheel (considered to be middle-click) and release the button, which overlays a little scroll guide circle. Move the mouse down to begin scrolling, and don't touch anything else. Click any mouse button to stop scrolling. (Another variant is to click and hold the wheel button, move the mouse down to scroll, and release the button to stop.)
- dolin_ch 7mo agoYes, yes, I know, but the site is designed for mobile devices and for the real pleasure of scrolling, not just cheating. Just for fun ;)
- sebastiennight 7mo ago"Windows" autoscroll? My Mac has had the same behavior for as long as I can remember. Did they copy it?
- oneeyedpigeon 7mo agoHow do you do this on macOS? I can't find anything under Settings > Mouse and I can't find a way of fluking it with various random gestures. I don't think I'll ever need it, I'm just curious!
- wildrhythms 7mo agoIt has never existed natively on Mac OS X.
- sebastiennight 7mo agoTIL - after you wrote this, I just tested in Numbers, Brave, and Finder and this behavior did not work. It seems that it only works in Firefox and I assumed it was an OS-level feature as I've used it so many times (and my most frequent need for such scrolling is the web, so I never noticed it's absent from other software)
- 7mo ago
- fredelt 7mo agoWhat a great time, accompanied by smiles at the punchlines. I love the idea. Thank you for the time wasted.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoReally happy to read this comment, thank you so much !
- leni536 7mo agoFun. I took out a tape measure to see how accurate it was. It wasn't very accurate. Also the scale on the left scrolls faster than my finger. Fennec(Firefox) on Android.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoRight. Thank you very much for the feedback, I'll check it out !
- kevincox 7mo agoThe scale on the left was also very stuttery. Even when scrolling slow I could see the distance at the bottom updating at a very high frame rate and the scale on the left only moved occasionally which felt awful.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoI'll make a note of that and try to fix it, thank you.
- PetitPrince 7mo agoYou should add a punchline about training for a thumb war (with a rocky reference ?).
- dolin_ch 7mo agoGreat idea! I'll do that ! ;) Thanks !
- hackerbeat 7mo agoNice! Reminds me of https://gagzap.com/ https://gagzap.com/
- dolin_ch 7mo agoI didn't know about that, thank you for the link.
- thomasfl 7mo agoJust likte this demonstrates the stupidity of infinite scrolling, here is a site that demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate everybody to click click on things that gives us rewards: https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/ https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/
- dolin_ch 7mo agoYes, I knew about this site ;)
- voidUpdate 7mo agoMight want an epilepsy flashing warning? for things like 666m and 1000m
- faeyanpiraat 7mo agoHow to make it obvious you are from the UK, without mentioning you are from the UK. :D
- voidUpdate 7mo agoIs finding bright flashing fullscreen images annoying, and knowing it can cause medical issues for some people a uniquely british thing?
- faeyanpiraat 7mo agoI didn't mean to be snarky in any way, and I cannot really explain the why, but the following happened: Read your comment -> wild "commenter must be British" thought appeared -> clicked profile -> co.uk checks out -> I found this whole experience funny enough in the moment to comment.
- fastasucan 7mo agoIt can be worth it, for a better discourse, to add some context to your post from the onset. "I have no idea why, if its something about your wording or something else, but I immediately thought you were from the uk". Your post comes across as pretty snarky/condenscending.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoYes, you're right, I hadn't thought of that! Thank you for your constructive feedback.
- adhoc_slime 7mo agocrazy level of eye damage from the flashing effects. Turns something cute into something painful, so thanks for that.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoI'm sorry, I hadn't thought of that! I'll take care of it!
- CodesInChaos 7mo agoI'm confused by that thing. After scrolling for a couple of minutes, the animation seems to play on on its own for longer than I cared to wait. Isn't the animation supposed to be coupled to the scrolling? And it doesn't really feel like scrolling either, since apart from the tiny depth bar on the left, no content scrolls by.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoThat's a fair point. The punchlines are there mostly to make the empty scroll a bit more entertaining while you go down. But you're right that nothing really scrolls by in the traditional sense. The idea is more about measuring how far your thumb travels than about browsing actual content.
- jirigalis 7mo agoYes, I have been warn multiple times - it's absolutely useless. However, I must admit, it's somehow catchy. Love the texts automatically appearing.
- dolin_ch 7mo agoAhahah ;) Thank you very much for the feedback, and I'm delighted to have wasted your time ;)
- jirigalis 7mo agoOmg, in 3 and half km I realized, that rankings are only for mobile devices! Is there really someone, who scrolled more than 35 km just by using his finger??
- dolin_ch 7mo agoSorry ;) Yes, recording is only possible on mobile devices, because otherwise it's far too easy to reach long distances. It's very easy to bypass scrolling on a workstation! And yes, some people have scrolled for an hour and a half :P
- jirigalis 7mo agoTbh, I tried to fake the scrolling as well :D First with the infinet scrolling wheel on my mouse, then with a short console script :D But well played with mobile only recording! You are also totally right with the comparison to instagram scrolling. Same useless thing. Thank you, your "app" is great!
- dolin_ch 7mo agoThank you so much for your feedback ;) I really appreciate it! And yes, that's the goal, to criticise endless scrolling on social media. Thank you for your kind words.
- prmoustache 7mo agowait, what?
- dolin_ch 7mo agoWe're not expecting anything, we're scrolling ;)