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As I age, this x1000. Even simple slack app on my windows laptop - clicking in the overview scroll bar is NOT "move down a page". It seems to be "the longer you click, the further it moves" or something equally disgusting. Usually, I dock my laptop and use an external mouse with wheel, and it's easy to do what I want. With a touchpad? Forget it.. I'm clicking 20x to get it to move to the top - IF I can hit the 5-pixel-wide scrollbar. There's no easy way to increase scrollbar size anymore either..

It's like dark patterns are the ONLY pattern these days.. WTF did we go wrong?



Indeed.

Win95 was peak UI design.

I don’t understand modern trends.


I created localslackirc to keep using IRC and not have to deal with slack :D


With a touchpad? Use two fingers to scroll (also works horizontally). Who's managing to hit a tiny scrollbar that disappears with a touchpad‽


They just aren't as good at detecting real physical contact as a nice physical mouse is at responding to movement and pressure.


I mean, maybe but the question wasn't what is the superior general pointing device (trackball ftw if you ask me) though, but how to scroll using a trackpad without tearing your hair out.




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