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Fixed-position web elements
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2011–2022), in 10 threads.
People raised many different problems with Fixed-position web elements, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
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 11 complaints
- Fixed navigation menu stays on screen while reading, which is a bad experience2022-04-06
- Fixed back-to-top buttons add clutter and worsen the user experience2020-06-24
- Fixed top bars cover content on small or keyboard-covered screens2018-07-08
- Floating social buttons cover the body text, hiding content the reader wants to read2017-05-02
- Fixed promo bar makes Space and Page Down scroll only one small screen at a time2017-05-02
- Fixed header keeps reappearing and covering part of the screen when scrolling up2015-04-25
- Fixed headers consume most of the screen and balloon absurdly when zoomed in2014-09-11
- Fixed-position background elements make pages hard to read or use2013-05-22
- Fixed elements that follow scrolling reduce viewing area and grow when pinch-zooming on mobile2013-04-22
- Fixed bars distract the eye and shrink the reading area while scrolling2011-11-28
- Fixed frames waste screen space and make scrolling behave unpredictably from site to site2011-07-18