Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Custom web scrolling
Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 5 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 6 complaints
- Clicking a point on the scroll bar does not jump there; must drag instead2024-11-30
- Custom scrollbars and text boxes lack native interactions, breaking users' familiar behavior2019-09-12
- Custom scrollbars are tiny, laggy, and unusable for people with poor eyesight or older users2019-09-12
- Hidden scrollbars and custom scrolling are less usable than familiar standard scrollbars2019-08-19
- Custom scrolling feels different from normal and breaks expected features2015-10-11
- Hijacked scrolling feels wrong to interact with compared to native browser behaviour2015-09-09