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HN suggestion: A larger margin at the bottom of comment pages
Hacker News tends to generate interesting, long discussions, which is great. I read the first screenful, glance at the bottom of the window and see that comments reach all the way to the bottom, so I hit the spacebar to bring up another page and keep reading, and the process repeats.
However, on the last page, the comments still reach all the way to the bottom of the screen, and I wind up hitting the spacebar a couple of times before I figure out I've actually come to the end of the page rather than my browser being sluggish or whatever.
If there were an inch or so of the white page background below the last comment, I think that would work wonderfully.
- joshu 17y agoI thought I was the only one. A footer would do as well.
- imd 17y agoHere, here! I notice it too. W3M does this, but since Firefox doesn't, this would be a cool feature.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- sker 17y agoThis has been brought up before and I happen to agree with you, but inevitably some of the purists will get mad at you for posting a meta-post and they will tell you to use the feature request section (at the bottom of the page) for this kind of things. Just so you know.
- gojomo 17y agoI suppose purists should vote up these previous requests for a visual footer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250242 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250242 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517280 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517280
- thristian 17y agoHuh, I did not know that. I'm a little sceptical that anyone would notice new replies added to a post made "835 days ago", but as you point out, that's where feature requests are supposed to go, so I guess I'll add my two cents there. Thanks! EDIT: Upon closer inspection, it seems the Feature Requests story is no longer accepting replies. However, it seems my suggestion was made nearly a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250242 ...and again 82 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=517280 Oh well.
- snprbob86 17y agoI sparked a discussion about it somewhere in between those two: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=308047 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=308047 :-)
- jeroen 17y agoI created a fix for that some time ago. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=357268 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=357268
- Tichy 17y agoWhat does the spacebar do?
- xenophanes 17y agoYou're in a browser. Try it?
- Tichy 17y agoBut it doesn't open a new window? Edit: I seriously don't understand what the post is about.
- andreyf 17y agoOn most pages, hitting spacebar scrolls down a page, and this user is complaining that he can't tell if he's at the bottom of a page.
- Tichy 17y agoSo he is complaining that he might have to hit spacebar one time too often? I assume if you already are at the bottom of the page, spacebar does nothing? Not sure what is more painful, having to process "white border - no spacebar" or "spacebar did nothing".
- TweedHeads 17y agospacebar = pagedown shift+spacebar = pageup
- fharper1961 17y agoI have also requested this change. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one.
- wglb 17y agoI agree. Not only does it make it easier to tell when one has actually reached the bottom of the page, it gives more room for proofs, and who knows what could happen if we run out of room!
- TweedHeads 17y agoAm I seeing a footer here? Wow, that was fast!
- pg 17y agoIt's handy having a repl on the server.