Too narrow, hidden, minimal feedback…

  • Jesus_666@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    They are bad replicas of school bars. Except you can’t use these to scroll the page and they use horizontal progress to express vertical progress. Everything they do could be done more effectively by having a visible scroll bar.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t see them as scroll bar replicas; good ones are very narrow but high contrast, to easily offer a compact visual sense of article length – rather than page length, an important distinction when there are cited sources, recommended articles, and a footer menu. Different functions.

      IMO, they should coexist with a well-designed vertical scroll bar.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Unless they were copying it from somewhere else, what were their arguments to implement it? Is it about gamefication of reading an article?