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The front-end UX for scrolling that bitmap was quite frankly horribly badly designed.

What was wrong with it?

It gets weird when the cursor leaves the box while dragging. Now, when you go back inside, you're still in drag mode since the box did not get the "mouse up" event and you end up selecting and dragging random text.

In the end this does not seem to have mattered. Reddit's hardcore "contributors" are the kind of people who enjoy a challenge, even when it's stupid. I think it even turned into some kind of pride for some of them, being able to "master" an idiotically programmed system.

Myself, I just get so frustrated about the idiocy.

Reddit has a place for everyone, you might find yourself at home on https://reddit.com/r/iamverysmart

Oh please just go back to reddit.

Did you try to use it?

It's still there: https://www.reddit.com/r/place/

They have may have fixed one or two scrolling issues since, but the main issue is that if you

a) press LMB

b) move the mouse, and move outside of the pixelized area

c) release LMB

.. it does weird things.

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