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   see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:41:45 JST see shy jo

   Astonishing how bad mastodon's web interface is at scrolling.

   The shown example is only one of many ways it messes up.

   The only scrolling method that works without such glitches is mouse wheel/drag style.

   Correct behavior for this is *built into the web browser*. They had to go out of their way to break it.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:41:44 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @joeyh the main thing that got me to switch to pinafore (4 or 5 years ago) was the fact that mastodon's web UI made it impossible to scroll with just the keyboard

     simultaneously boggled by how common it is for JS developers to fuck this up and also thankful that excellent alternatives exist

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:52:52 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @joeyh I don't know what "disable all hotkeys" means in this context; scrolling seems fine out of the box for me in pinafore?

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 02:52:53 JST see shy jo

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy ah, pinafore with disable all hotkeys you mean

     I sucked it up and got in the habit of two finger scrolling... Then it turned out my new thinkpad's trackpad is very bad at telling the difference between 2 and 3 fingers.

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 03:04:34 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @joeyh hm; I don't know as I haven't run into that problem

     on my system it only covers up the timestamp, never the text; wonder if it has to do with different font sizes?

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 03:04:35 JST see shy jo

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy any way to disable pinafore's pencil icon that appears over top of text I am trying to read having just paged down? If so I might switch.

     (Adblock of it didn't persist.)

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 03:20:20 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     @joeyh oh gotcha; I mostly just scroll with pageup/pagedown (which also didn't work in default mastodon on a fresh page load until you click with the mouse when I tried it last)

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     see shy jo (joeyh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Oct-2023 03:20:21 JST see shy jo

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     • tech? no! man, see...

     @technomancy down arrow defaults to scrolling a post at a time, which can cut off the middle of posts of certain length. (A problem the mastodon interface also has.)

     but pinafore does have a pref to disable that!