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Posted by dolin_ch 3 days ago

A useless infinite scroll experiment(futile.ch)
74 points | 48 comments
thomasfl 52 minutes ago|
Just likte this demonstrates the stupidity of infinite scrolling, here is a site that demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate everybody to click click on things that gives us rewards:

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

dolin_ch 20 minutes ago|
Yes, I knew about this site ;)
CodesInChaos 23 minutes ago||
I'm confused by that thing. After scrolling for a couple of minutes, the animation seems to play on on its own for longer than I cared to wait. Isn't the animation supposed to be coupled to the scrolling?

And it doesn't really feel like scrolling either, since apart from the tiny depth bar on the left, no content scrolls by.

nayuki 3 hours ago||
Windows autoscroll makes this game too easy. This feature was introduced a very long time ago, possibly with the IntelliMouse in the year 1996. Press on the scroll wheel (considered to be middle-click) and release the button, which overlays a little scroll guide circle. Move the mouse down to begin scrolling, and don't touch anything else. Click any mouse button to stop scrolling. (Another variant is to click and hold the wheel button, move the mouse down to scroll, and release the button to stop.)
EsportToys 12 minutes ago||
You may also be interested in my little modification of middle-scroll behaviour:

https://github.com/esporttoys/librescroll

sebastiennight 2 hours ago|||
"Windows" autoscroll? My Mac has had the same behavior for as long as I can remember. Did they copy it?
oneeyedpigeon 1 hour ago||
How do you do this on macOS? I can't find anything under Settings > Mouse and I can't find a way of fluking it with various random gestures. I don't think I'll ever need it, I'm just curious!
dolin_ch 3 hours ago||
Yes, yes, I know, but the site is designed for mobile devices and for the real pleasure of scrolling, not just cheating. Just for fun ;)
voidUpdate 57 minutes ago||
Might want an epilepsy flashing warning? for things like 666m and 1000m
dolin_ch 21 minutes ago||
Yes, you're right, I hadn't thought of that! Thank you for your constructive feedback.
faeyanpiraat 44 minutes ago||
How to make it obvious you are from the UK, without mentioning you are from the UK. :D
voidUpdate 28 minutes ago||
Is finding bright flashing fullscreen images annoying, and knowing it can cause medical issues for some people a uniquely british thing?
adhoc_slime 35 minutes ago||
crazy level of eye damage from the flashing effects. Turns something cute into something painful, so thanks for that.
dolin_ch 19 minutes ago|
I'm sorry, I hadn't thought of that! I'll take care of it!
sebastiennight 4 hours ago||
Nice. I will now start using it when I feel a compulsive need to escape boredom during unfocused Zoom calls.

A few remarks:

- some sentences (many) seem to be cut off on desktop. I only see, eg. "content to keep the site from going viral" or "around here. We're not that ambitious".

- It's interesting that for users who have their device set to the superior scrolling direction ("reverse" scrolling, drag your fingers up to see what's at the top), your website behaves correctly but gives the opposite feeling. It's the first webpage where I've ever felt like "normal" scrolling (drag your fingers down to pull the page down) would be more natural.

- scrolling for long enough to get the first sound effect was quite a surprise

dolin_ch 3 hours ago|
Looking forward to your next Zoom meeting ;) That's strange about the cut-off sentences. What device are you using? I'll check it out, because I'm not having any problems on my end. Thank you so much for the great feedback, I really appreciate it!
hackerbeat 1 hour ago||
Nice! Reminds me of https://gagzap.com/
dolin_ch 1 hour ago|
I didn't know about that, thank you for the link.
leni536 2 hours ago||
Fun. I took out a tape measure to see how accurate it was. It wasn't very accurate. Also the scale on the left scrolls faster than my finger. Fennec(Firefox) on Android.
kevincox 58 minutes ago||
The scale on the left was also very stuttery. Even when scrolling slow I could see the distance at the bottom updating at a very high frame rate and the scale on the left only moved occasionally which felt awful.
dolin_ch 2 hours ago||
Right. Thank you very much for the feedback, I'll check it out !
totetsu 4 hours ago||
iOS health app could track this like steps. Total distance scrolled on your phone.
mrunseen 4 hours ago||
There was a iOS jailbreak tweak called Treadmill where it exactly done that. Pretty cool to me.

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/31/ryan-petrich-treadm...

2Gkashmiri 40 minutes ago|||
Never owned an iPhone after 3GS because it became prohibitively expensive.

I have so many memories of cydia and there was this itools, some Chinese software that let me do more than iTunes.

Those were the days. I was rocking an html lockdscreen which was pretty cool.

When I got hands on original iPhone back in 2008, I remember my PC having less ram, less storage as that was a handmedown. It was freaking cool to have more compute in hand than what my xp machine did.

dolin_ch 24 minutes ago||
The good old days! Still on iPhone, but no more jailbreaking... too restrictive.
dolin_ch 4 hours ago|||
I didn't know that, thank you for the information and for your feedback
dolin_ch 4 hours ago||
Ahahah, that would be an excellent idea
PetitPrince 2 hours ago|
You should add a punchline about training for a thumb war (with a rocky reference ?).
dolin_ch 1 hour ago|
Great idea! I'll do that ! ;) Thanks !
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