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Comment by tinus_hn | Hacker News Reader

Could you please disable that annoying behavior where scrolling slightly left or right swaps to a different article? It’s hard so imagine anyone actually uses that and it is extremely annoying.

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My favorite wrinkle of that "feature" (on mobile) is when there's an embedded video in a post that's wider than the viewport. Swiping very slightly left or right scrolls the page, but a tiny bit moar and it switches articles. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

That's a problem with the Blogger platform, it might not be possible to disable that behaviour without switching to something else entirely.

Have you ever heard of the expression "How do you know someone disables javascript on the internet through an add-on? They'll tell you"?

No? Well, anyway, one draconic way to fix this is installing something like uMatrix or NoScript. This particular website works fine without JS.

The web is better as a whole without js

It would suck if you had to refresh the page here on HN for every upvote.

Nah, we'd just have check boxes and a submit at the bottom of the page and we'd call it UX.

Kind of a cool hack: I believe HN used to record upvotes through a CSS rule that (when clicked) caused an empty image to load. No JS required.

Upvoting adds nothing but the capacity for groupthink. See what voting has done to the level of discourse on reddit. The larger the community, the worse the problem.

If we couldn't vote on comments asyncrhonously (or, IMHO at all), nothing of value would be lost.

Likewise you can just turn on reader mode or whatever the mobile browsers call it. Should pull just the text out.

I wonder if we couldn't just make an "open in reader mode" add-on

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42254577/how-to-remove-s...

Hmm...I can't even reproduce it. Now on Safari, I do have a JavaScript blocker on, but I also tried on Chrome and still nothing.

Probably a mobile-only behavior.

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