A useless infinite scroll experiment(futile.ch)
74 points by dolin_ch 4 days ago | 50 comments
- nayuki 4 hours agoWindows autoscroll makes this game too easy. This feature was introduced a very long time ago, possibly with the IntelliMouse in the year 1996. Press on the scroll wheel (considered to be middle-click) and release the button, which overlays a little scroll guide circle. Move the mouse down to begin scrolling, and don't touch anything else. Click any mouse button to stop scrolling. (Another variant is to click and hold the wheel button, move the mouse down to scroll, and release the button to stop.)[-]
- EsportToys 1 hour agoYou may also be interested in my little modification of middle-scroll behaviour:
- sebastiennight 3 hours ago"Windows" autoscroll? My Mac has had the same behavior for as long as I can remember. Did they copy it?[-]
- oneeyedpigeon 2 hours agoHow do you do this on macOS? I can't find anything under Settings > Mouse and I can't find a way of fluking it with various random gestures. I don't think I'll ever need it, I'm just curious!
- dolin_ch 4 hours agoYes, yes, I know, but the site is designed for mobile devices and for the real pleasure of scrolling, not just cheating. Just for fun ;)
- CodesInChaos 1 hour agoI'm confused by that thing. After scrolling for a couple of minutes, the animation seems to play on on its own for longer than I cared to wait. Isn't the animation supposed to be coupled to the scrolling?
And it doesn't really feel like scrolling either, since apart from the tiny depth bar on the left, no content scrolls by.
[-]- dolin_ch 17 minutes agoThat's a fair point.
The punchlines are there mostly to make the empty scroll a bit more entertaining while you go down. But you're right that nothing really scrolls by in the traditional sense.
The idea is more about measuring how far your thumb travels than about browsing actual content.
- voidUpdate 2 hours agoMight want an epilepsy flashing warning? for things like 666m and 1000m[-]
- dolin_ch 1 hour agoYes, you're right, I hadn't thought of that! Thank you for your constructive feedback.
- faeyanpiraat 2 hours agoHow to make it obvious you are from the UK, without mentioning you are from the UK. :D[-]
- voidUpdate 1 hour agoIs finding bright flashing fullscreen images annoying, and knowing it can cause medical issues for some people a uniquely british thing?
- sebastiennight 5 hours agoNice. I will now start using it when I feel a compulsive need to escape boredom during unfocused Zoom calls.
A few remarks:
- some sentences (many) seem to be cut off on desktop. I only see, eg. "content to keep the site from going viral" or "around here. We're not that ambitious".
- It's interesting that for users who have their device set to the superior scrolling direction ("reverse" scrolling, drag your fingers up to see what's at the top), your website behaves correctly but gives the opposite feeling. It's the first webpage where I've ever felt like "normal" scrolling (drag your fingers down to pull the page down) would be more natural.
- scrolling for long enough to get the first sound effect was quite a surprise
[-]- dolin_ch 5 hours agoLooking forward to your next Zoom meeting ;) That's strange about the cut-off sentences. What device are you using? I'll check it out, because I'm not having any problems on my end. Thank you so much for the great feedback, I really appreciate it!
- hackerbeat 2 hours agoNice! Reminds me of https://gagzap.com/[-]
- dolin_ch 2 hours agoI didn't know about that, thank you for the link.
- totetsu 6 hours agoiOS health app could track this like steps. Total distance scrolled on your phone.[-]
- mrunseen 5 hours agoThere was a iOS jailbreak tweak called Treadmill where it exactly done that. Pretty cool to me.
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/31/ryan-petrich-treadm...
[-]- dolin_ch 5 hours agoI didn't know that, thank you for the information and for your feedback
- 2Gkashmiri 1 hour agoNever owned an iPhone after 3GS because it became prohibitively expensive.
I have so many memories of cydia and there was this itools, some Chinese software that let me do more than iTunes.
Those were the days. I was rocking an html lockdscreen which was pretty cool.
When I got hands on original iPhone back in 2008, I remember my PC having less ram, less storage as that was a handmedown. It was freaking cool to have more compute in hand than what my xp machine did.
[-]- dolin_ch 1 hour agoThe good old days! Still on iPhone, but no more jailbreaking... too restrictive.
- dolin_ch 5 hours agoAhahah, that would be an excellent idea
- leni536 4 hours agoFun. I took out a tape measure to see how accurate it was. It wasn't very accurate. Also the scale on the left scrolls faster than my finger. Fennec(Firefox) on Android.[-]
- kevincox 2 hours agoThe scale on the left was also very stuttery. Even when scrolling slow I could see the distance at the bottom updating at a very high frame rate and the scale on the left only moved occasionally which felt awful.[-]
- dolin_ch 15 minutes agoI'll make a note of that and try to fix it, thank you.
- dolin_ch 3 hours agoRight. Thank you very much for the feedback, I'll check it out !
- adhoc_slime 1 hour agocrazy level of eye damage from the flashing effects. Turns something cute into something painful, so thanks for that.[-]
- dolin_ch 1 hour agoI'm sorry, I hadn't thought of that! I'll take care of it!
- PetitPrince 3 hours agoYou should add a punchline about training for a thumb war (with a rocky reference ?).[-]
- dolin_ch 3 hours agoGreat idea! I'll do that ! ;) Thanks !
- adzm 4 hours agoWon't this lose precision as you near the limits of a double? Or is it using BigInt behind the scenes?[-]
- dolin_ch 4 hours agoIt's just standard JS numbers (IEEE-754 doubles), not BigInt.
The distance is accumulated in millimeters, so even if someone somehow scrolled hundreds of kilometers we'd still be far below the 2^53 integer precision limit.
So precision loss shouldn't realistically happen.
- orthoxerox 5 hours agoFinally, a website that makes me feel like activating a superpower when I unlock the scroll wheel on my mouse.[-]
- dolin_ch 5 hours agoAhahah. But it's more for your thumb, on mobile.
- lekiros 5 hours ago[dead]
- leosanchez 7 hours agoDid I hear a moan after pausing around 200m ?[-]
- dolin_ch 5 hours agoYou're not mad
- gus_massa 2 days agoCan you add an option to switch to feet? :)[-]
- sebastiennight 3 hours agoMost people scroll using their thumbs. Your touchscreen must be quite large[-]
- dolin_ch 3 hours agoAs large as possible ;)
- nixass 5 hours agoWhy not Fahrenheits while at it?
- dolin_ch 14 hours agoBut there is no end