In b4 someone tells me 6 isn't out yet
I miss visible, usable scroll bars. Now they're replaced with… nothing, because we want everything to be invisible while keeping a lot of empty space in modern designs, it seems.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2024
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My favorite is that you can't see if content is actually off screen sometimes. No scrolbar to indicate and often those clean lines just look like the end of the content. Horrible
2024, scrollbars? What scrollbars? We decided that you don't need them. Sorry but your adblocker and script blocking, broke our own shitty implementation of scrolling. Please enable all scripts for our large ad family to feast on your data.
I really hate sites that change scrolling It always looks weird and uncomfortable. Who thinks this is a good idea?
Search engine optimizers.
If you spend more time on a site, it looks higher value, so they do everything to increase the time you need to find the info you came for.
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2024.... one pixel wide
And disappears and reappears without rhyme or reason like it's possessed.
Simplifying the most recent scroll bar feels like a huge step backwards to me. It really is the epitome of modern tech needlessly boiling down to its basic visual aspects to emulate a "clean" environment for the users.
Give me back my scroll bar texture damnit
This. Holy shit is it frustrating to click a pixel wide scroll bar that is on the edge between two monitors. It's even worse when they disappear.
I recently had a complaint with a website:
"Users are having trouble scrolling!"
My response:
"Are they using the scroll wheel/directly scrolling with the touchpad, or using the scroll bar?"
They were, of course, using the scroll bar. I am now somehow responsible for design choices made at the level of the browser, because browsers have decided that the scroll bar should be nigh impossible to use. Yippee.
What really chuffs my spuds is when the application decides they want to provide their own UI rather than using the system default.
Not just scrollbars. Buttons, input fields, etc.
Dammit I sometimes have to search for elements I can interact with. Back in the day it was self explaining.
UIs get worse all the time, very frustrating. Who needs contrast, right? I have good eyes and know exactly where to look. My mother? Holy shit no chance.
Not necessarily for visibility but when i work I NEED FUCKING BORDERS FOR MY FUCKING BRAIN TO KEEP FUCKING STRUCTURE AND NOT EVERYTHING FADING OUT INTO ..yeah thanks i lost the thread again
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It's really depressing how often I have to turn off CSS entirely just to view a webpage. I could of course always go into the inspector and turn off the bad CSS, but Gecko-based browsers fortunately have "View -> Page Style -> No Style" which is must easier and faster.
And seriously, whoever invented the font-weight CSS property can burn in hell. Ditto for whoever decided that we should only be allowed to read light grey text on slightly lighter grey background.
Its the epitome of technology that as it improves some things become obsolete.
Pretty much every mouse has a scroll wheel on them now. I very seldom click on a scroll bar now. So the design has changed with that consideration in mind.
It's a design choice, not a question of obsolescence. If it were, we'd be talking about their decision on removing the scroll bar, not changing it.
At the very least the style change could have been optional.
There is still a need to indicate progress when scrolling even with a mouse wheel. So scroll bars are designed with that in mind. And there is still occasion that you may want to use it to brag the bar to a specific part of a page. But this is fairly rare, because how do you know what part of a page you want to go to before you've seen it?
Currently on my Firefox there is indeed no scrollbar displayed. If I use my mouse wheel a thin version appears to indicate progress while scrolling. If I move my mouse to the edge of the screen a wider version appears which is easier to interface with on the rare occasion I want to do that. This is an optimal interface given the hardware I have available.
On a phone or table the scrollbar will not be interacted with my clicking on it. It only appears to indicate progress.
The old scrollbar design is obsolete. Doesn't make any sense on touchscreens and is a waste of screen space on desktops since people have scroll wheels now.
Obsolete doesn't mean it no longer works, a horse and carriage still functions after all. Obsolete simply means there's more optimal options available because of improvements in technology. The scrollbar on Firefox right now is more optimal because of newer technology. The scrollbars pictured are obsolete no matter how much nostalgia you might feel for them.
My friend, obsolescence as a concept can apply to a functional necessity. Obsolescence doesn't apply to a design choice like a texture on a window element.
If your entire point is that scroll bars aren't necessary anymore, fine. If you're going to type up a long winded response as to why scroll bars shouldn't have the little lines on them anymore, you're just being pedantic.
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Anyone else hate the trend of removing arrow buttons?
What I hate is how in Firefox in Linux I only have these tiny "slim" scrollbars that hide when not in use.
I am not a fan of the general trend of de-buttoning.
Like... isn't the entire point to make things consistent and intuitive? Make a clickable button visually distinct!
I hated the trend of flat buttons. Then they removed the buttons. Then they basically removed the entire scrollbar altogether.
At this point, I'd happily go back to the age of flat buttons. That's how bad things have gotten....
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I actually like 1988.
It's definitely the superior scroll bar.
The elder scrolls, online
I like 1998 the most. Easy on the eyes and doesn't distract from the content that would appear on the side, but has enough pop to indicate that it can be interacted with.
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Where's the 1984 text only version?
I'm not a huge fan of the flat button aesthetic. Give me the 3D-esque buttons and the translucent Aero window frames of Windows Vista.
Our GPUs, even the integrated ones, are powerful enough for it now.
I am scared of the Plasma 6 upgrade. I currently have oxygen theme with a bunch of stuff like lamp minimizing effect, fall apart effect when closing windows, wobbly windows when moving or resizing them, animated rainbow mouse pointer (XP style). Also the loading mouse icon when opening programs is the programs icon jumping up and down.
I am not sure all of it will work on Plasma 6.
I can verify that lamp minimizing, and wobbly windows work on plasma 6 (Arch btw). The only things that stopped working for me were a couple widgets that I found out haven't been updated in like 8 years.
I seem to recall Apple going through a phase when they put both arrows on both sides of the scrollbar.
I yearn to return to 1998.
It's easily the best option on this image. Nothing else even comes close in terms of visual clarity and simple aesthetics.
I remember Windows XP coming out and we all mocked it as Windows but with an interface by Crayola. But I'd gladly have that Crayola interface back rather than the flat modern crap we have now.
2001-2006 the golden age of scrollbars.
Did anyone ever rock Windows Longhorn when they were developing vista?
Yep, I sure did. For quite a while too, as I recall. I think I was too scared to move to it permanently and dual-booted with WinXP. First time I saw the status bar of a copy or install processing and seeing it do the …rolling colors in the filled in portion I thought something was wrong. I was used to a static status bar where it just filled in and didn’t do anything fancy.
2006 was the peak
Combining 2006 and 2009 would be ideal. High contrast etc.
And now I'm blind. Thanks!
You should've known better, the moth priests have to train for years to use these
I used all of them, I'm feeling old now.
What will be released first? Elder Scroll 6 vs new Windows scroll bar?
In 2012, Tiber Septim achieved Chim and erased the scrollbar textures.
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