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Comment by jmholla | Hacker News Reader

Mostly unrelated, but I hate websites like this that think they're way of handling arrow keys for scrolling should be implemented over how every other web page does it. I lost my place so many times when I mindlessly tried to scroll again with the arrow keys.

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And even though this website only contains his posts and nothing else, individual posts are minimised and have to be clicked on to unfold, which scrolls the entire page for me on mobile chrome and I have to find it again. It's a usability nightmare.

This website is a well known infosec Mastodon host. The linked site is to a specific person's feed but the site local feed, with many other individuals' posts is at https://infosec.exchange/public/local

Top right of the content bar has an eyeball icon with "show more for all", which expands them all at once, but agreed, this isn't great UI or UX (still better than twitter though!)

At a particular point the author specifically indicates that for the sake of reducing stuff that many readers might find uninteresting or too frequent, they will be condensing larger posts.

> Alright, things are moving faster now, so I might condense-toot to avoid pollution.

But I guess the chronically online need something to complain about.

It's not the condensation of content I'm complaining about, it's the fact that when you try to unfold a post the entire website scrolls and puts you somewhere else. That's just bad UI.

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