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Mouse scroll wheel
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 4 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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Default scroll amount per notch is too slow to move through textUnreviewed
20132026- Mouse wheel scrolls by whole lines, making tall spreadsheet cells hard to view fully2024-03-06
- Scroll amount is erratic: tiny moves or jumps of several pages, requiring many retries2023-04-16
- Default scroll amount per wheel notch takes too long to move through text2013-01-11
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 4 complaints
- Mouse wheel scrolls by whole lines, making tall spreadsheet cells hard to view fully2024-03-06
- Scroll amount is erratic: tiny moves or jumps of several pages, requiring many retries2023-04-16
- Scroll-linked animations play as choppy one-frame-per-second slideshows for mouse wheel users2022-10-17
- Default scroll amount per wheel notch takes too long to move through text2013-01-11