Comment by hbn

3 years ago

It's hard to rely on the scrollbar if the website either loads the article as you scroll (I think Ars Technica does this) or you know whether or not there's a comments section. Or sometimes there is a comments section but it doesn't load until you scroll it into view.

I find myself frequently jumping to the bottom of the article to see if the small scrollbar is due to the article length or a comments section.

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wtallis  3 years ago

Websites that are doing obviously wrong things shouldn't be used to justify another layer of bad features being added. There's never any justification for deferring loading of the rest of an article until you scroll. The images, maybe, but definitely not the text.