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Comment by lswainemoore | Hacker News Reader

Nitpicky/unsolicited UI feedback:

I do a lot of double/triple clicking to highlight text as I read online (fidgeting, but also helps keep track of where I am). On your site, triple clicking unintentionally hits the twitter share button, which opens a new, unwanted window. Bit annoying.

Medium does something similar, but they offset the button so you have to move cursor in between clicks to actually trigger the button.

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I’m fascinated by that phenomenon. I don’t even notice I’m doing it most of the time, and I’m shocked by how many other people do it.

Specific, common, digital tics. Another one is control-s after a single line changed. Something immensely satisfying about selecting that perfect block of text and making that “altered document” asterisk go away.

For me it’s partly a habit from writing code. Most of the time I’m only modifying a few lines at a time and am going to do another test cycle. Gotta save to make that happen! (Excluding, of course, the editors that auto save all the time and cover your screen with red lines when you’ve tipped half a statement and then stop to think about it for a few seconds...)

I do similar things constantly as well. It makes me not enjoy maybe "modern" apps and web apps. That think text highlighting is somehow a bad thing.

Sometimes I like to middle click and move my house instead of using the wheel (nicer on my joints). Sometimes I like to even just move it a little and have it auto-scroll as I read. It's a fun game to try and match my pace and more engaging that way. So many websites break these too.

Thank you — I pieced that feature together. Will tweak!

Might I suggest having a spot in the margin devoted to that button, placed either halfway down the paragraph or (if you have a really really long P or selection) halfway down the screen?

There are a handful of sites I've encountered that do this and I hate it. Feels like a violation when I can't select text the way I normally do, for some reason.

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