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Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by self_awareness »

jorams wrote: post #33
self_awareness wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, but it is visible when you scroll. Progress meter is also at 0% when you're not scrolling, so unless you scroll, you don't know how much text there is to read. (btw, just checked for Firefox and Safari, and the scrollbar is visible at all times, unless the website explicitly hides it)

> (btw, just checked for Firefox and Safari, and the scrollbar is visible at all times, unless the website explicitly hides it) There is a setting for this called "Always show scrollbars" and I know it defaults to off for me. The underlying about:config rule is specific to GTK though, so this may be platform-specific.

I was checking this on macOS. I have system scrollbar setting set to "automatic". Never changed scrollbar settings in Safari/Firefox, so it works like this for me by default, not sure why.

But also I don't really get how people are fine with hiding the scrollbar, but prefering to see the progress meter always visible for text, when the scrollbar conveys mostly the same information (except some edge cases when the footer is long I guess).

Not that it's important at all, I'm just at loss and it's not the first time I'm getting a signal that sometimes I simply don't understand people. But of course that's fine.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by naitgacem »

Nowadays it's like every single blog and website will "popup" something everytime i select text. It annoys me to no end, because I select text as I read along and it's incredibly annoying.

Whether be it ChatGPT, medium articles, and recently even Google search!

UBlock Origin allows you to block JavaScript by default on all websites, and it's what I do. And Firefox has something called reader mode. Absolutely fantastic tools.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by mhb »

velcrovan wrote: post #36

I went pretty far in the direction of these features on my personal sites in the 2010s. They are fun coding and design challenges. Nowadays I am going the other direction. For the most recent design on my personal site, I even have a “no footnotes” rule, on the theory that (for me at least) footnotes can be an indication of scattered thinking and/or insufficient editing.

Nicholson Baker would like a word.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by 83457 »

Puts wrote: post #47

A feature that seems to have disappeared from a lot of blogs these days is date when a post was published. Sometimes date is required to put things into context and I can't understand why so many blogs these days don't have it.

It is related to SEO.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by xnorswap »

squidbeak wrote: post #29

RSS should be a core rather than a 'micro' feature.

I might cop a lot of hate for saying this, but it's been 10 years, it's time to stop mourning RSS and move on.

I loved RSS, I sorely miss the protocol based internet rather than the web based internet we have now. I miss when my emails didn't have adverts pretending to be emails at the top of my inbox.

Advertising was a lot less prevalent when applications had protocols and you could simply move to a different client with fewer (or no) adverts.

But that's not the reality of the modern web.

And it doesn't do much good to pine for the past.

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