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Why Does Microsoft Have a Thin Scroll Bar? Reducing Clutter Is Their Opinion

2 pointsinitramfs6 comments

Well, I strongly disagree with their opinion on this. This is one of my top 3 pet peeves about Windows UI design these days. The other two are failing to make it obvious which window is the active window, and cluttering up the title bar with crap like tabs.

USE this link->> https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-is... the horrible URL that was pasted for no reason other than Chrome/Microsoft creating this monstrous URL and the main link doesn't work? I have to always double check the URL whenever this happens but it happens so often that I missed it. Sorry!

It's maybe worse here: In macOS I don't see the scroll bars most of time (they only appear on scrolling) and they are narrow (so I need to scroll and then grab them quickly). I can imagine that inspired Microsoft.

yeah, it's insanely user-unfriendly There are 4k monitors which would make this very hard on 100% zoom. On 1080p it's pretty narrow.

It also suggests that most mice have the option to scroll without the wheel. But this still fails. And Discord has a dark background with a THIN scroll bar, making the problem even harder.

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4405047...

"AI Overview Learn more If you find the scroll bar on Discord to be too thin, it's a common complaint as many users find the default scroll bar width in Discord to be quite narrow, making it difficult to click on precisely to scroll, and is considered by some as a design flaw within the platform; there's currently no direct setting within Discord to adjust the scroll bar thickness. "

"Mutant3 years ago All programs need to respect the GUI preferences the user has specified in their OS. If you have customised the scrollbar width and colour in your OS's Control Panel (Appearance Settings, if you're using Windows). Discord seems to defy this standard behaviour... and rather than defy it to use sensible, usable defaults, it chooses implausibly dark, impossibly narrow scrollbars to antagonise the user. This is extremely dysfunctional user interface design."

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