[HN Gopher] Lock Scroll with a Vengeance
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Lock Scroll with a Vengeance
Author : etothet
Score : 60 points
Date : 2026-03-04 03:42 UTC (3 days ago)
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| oleganza wrote:
| TV examples show that Apple simply has done their scrolling
| right, while everyone else did not work out the necessary
| details.
| IneffablePigeon wrote:
| Except the other examples used to work like Apple's and have
| switched to the scroll locked implementation.
|
| I think I prefer that mode to be honest, because it leaves you
| in a consistent place for up/down to take you to instead of it
| potentially depending where your selection is in the row.
| vessenes wrote:
| Yeah the real pain is button pressing down / up / back in the
| TV UI. Definitely a fun grab bag of possible outcomes! I
| don't think there's a good solution without a militant UI
| person in charge of the whole shebang - some radical
| simplification would likely be needed.
|
| The reality is that the click ipod was much better at
| scrolling media than the Apple TV is. And I own a lot of
| Apple TVs - I think it's a good device. But it was far faster
| to scroll through media 20 years ago.
| unpixel8 wrote:
| you can navigate lists (and scrub media playback) on Apple
| TV using the iPod click wheel gesture!
|
| > Circle your finger around the clickpad ring for more
| precise control (silver remote only).
|
| https://support.apple.com/guide/tv/navigate-apple-
| tv-4k-atvb...
| vessenes wrote:
| I know. If you have an old iPod, try it. I stand by my
| review; I think it's probably 3x as much latency.
| sheept wrote:
| I guess a business reason for scroll lock in the TV UIs is that
| it immediately shows more recommendations as you scroll right,
| which I suppose could increase engagement.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Scrolling on TV strangely annoying. To see any more options on
| Apple TV you have to go all the way to right and then start going
| actually to the right. On Netflix can't search easily. Have to
| bring everything back to left most first.
| peterlada wrote:
| I was today's years old when I learned what Scroll Lock was used
| for. And I've not had a keyboard with it for about 15 years.
| PNewling wrote:
| You and me both. This was a surprisingly elucidating post about
| something that has essentially hasn't been an option for me in
| a long time, hah.
| codeulike wrote:
| My pc, maybe because of the external keyboard I'm using,
| occasionally decides that Scroll Lock is On and then Excel
| becomes unusable ... The solution is to bring up the On Screen
| Keyboard and toggle the virtual scroll lock key ...
| netsharc wrote:
| I wonder how that happens? Do you press Ctrl-Home a lot (to go
| to the very start of a document), and maybe you missed and hit
| Fn-Home, if you have a Dell OEM keyboard https://external-
| content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... , Fn-Home
| toggles Scroll Lock...
| stephbook wrote:
| God how i hate these unresponsive TV interfaces. Even the apple
| TV feels slow and like it renders at half a frame per second.
|
| Instead of selecting something you already see, it feels like
| you're discovering something that's slow to render.
|
| Imagine your PCs desktop was like this, or your phone's app list.
| Click once per "next selection." It would drive me mad.
| jitl wrote:
| tv ui favors larger elements and longer transitions to make
| focus & change more legible for distant viewing. at 1m-3m
| people have a harder time following the ui. tv browsing is also
| much more frequently a group activity, where one person is
| pushing buttons and so knows what transition will happen, but
| others on the couch need to follow the activity too. different
| modality & ui priority compared to phone or desktop which are
| much closer to the face and much more personal/single player.
| skerit wrote:
| I hate the new way scrolling works in the Youtube & Netflix apps.
| So janky.
| vivzkestrel wrote:
| - bro you really need to ramp the ux of your blog
|
| - i just wanted to take a quick glance at all the posts to see if
| anything catches my eye
|
| - https://unsung.aresluna.org/all
|
| - https://unsung.aresluna.org/archive
|
| - https://unsung.aresluna.org/archives
|
| - https://unsung.aresluna.org/posts
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| - https://unsung.aresluna.org/blog
|
| - none of the above links work, a lot of dudes sharing blogs on
| HN absolutely do not check if they have a page where all the
| articles are seen in one glance (titles only)
|
| - bro look at this other dude https://xnacly.me/posts/ his post
| was right below yours, look how beautifully this page has put up
| titles of every post with tags no less! cant we have something
| like this for your blog
| zahlman wrote:
| Did you try https://unsung.aresluna.org/ (which is linked from
| the logo in the header)?
| amadeuspagel wrote:
| The videos on this site don't work for me. I see two related in
| errors in Chrome Dev Tools:
|
| Uncaught (in promise) AbortError: The play() request was
| interrupted by a call to pause().
|
| Uncaught (in promise) NotSupportedError: Failed to load because
| no supported source was found.
| MathMonkeyMan wrote:
| I use firefox and have my autoplay policy set to aggressive no.
| There's an icon left of the address bar that shows a crossed-
| out play button when scripted video is prevented. If I click on
| that play button, I can select "always allow," and the videos
| will be allowed to play. That's all it took for me.
|
| I set that option one day when a news website would autoplay a
| video every time I scrolled (I think it was the New York
| Times). This sent me into a fit of rage and now I prefer the
| inconvenience of having to reselect "allow all" almost every
| time I visit a site with video.
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