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Comment by yason | Hacker News Reader

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Same here. I have to install a userscript to restore usable scrolling:

    // ==UserScript==
    // @name     Mastodon: don't fucking hijack the keyboard
    // @grant    none
    // @match    https://hachyderm.io/*
    // @match    https://mastodon.social/*
    // @match    https://mamot.fr/*
    // @match    https://queer.party/*
    // @match    https://social.treehouse.systems/*
    // @match    https://infosec.exchange/*
    // @match    https://jawns.club/*
    // @match    https://mastodon.gamedev.place/*
    // @match    https://mathstodon.xyz/*
    // @run-at   document-start
    // ==/UserScript==

    window.addEventListener('keydown', ev => ev.stopPropagation(), true);
    window.addEventListener('keyup', ev => ev.stopPropagation(), true);

> Up/down arrows jump to the next post and page up/down isn't too helpful for reading.

I didn't experience this at all on Firefox, up/down and page up/down scrolled in the normal way.

It kinda happens to me on firefox, one press of the down arrow scrolls so "Here's a formula for the lemniscate in polar coordinates" in the first reply is at the top of the screen, not helpful.

The issue existed from me in both firefox and chrome. Click on outside columns will result in normal scroll. Click or highlight in the center column will result in the jumpy scroll that does not quite scroll one comment at a time with up/down arrow.

here's a nickel, get a new browser.

no idea why i even go for bait like this. because i like doing unpaid support work i guess. i tested in firefox and chrome. both work fine and don't do it like op decribes - no keybinds, keys behave normal.

maybe one of the dudes from yesterdays thread that had his own chatgpt programmed browser extensions installed that break the web for him.

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