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nayuki · 12 hours ago
Windows 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 · 9 hours ago
You may also be interested in my little modification of middle-scroll behaviour:

https://github.com/esporttoys/librescroll

sebastiennight · 11 hours ago
"Windows" autoscroll? My Mac has had the same behavior for as long as I can remember. Did they copy it?
oneeyedpigeon · 10 hours ago
How 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!
wildrhythms · 7 hours ago
It has never existed natively on Mac OS X.
dolin_ch · 12 hours ago
Yes, yes, I know, but the site is designed for mobile devices and for the real pleasure of scrolling, not just cheating. Just for fun ;)
thomasfl · 10 hours ago
Just likte this demonstrates the stupidity of infinite scrolling, here is a site that demonstrates how easy it is to manipulate everybody to click click on things that gives us rewards:

https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

dolin_ch · 9 hours ago
Yes, I knew about this site ;)
voidUpdate · 10 hours ago
Might want an epilepsy flashing warning? for things like 666m and 1000m
dolin_ch · 9 hours ago
Yes, you're right, I hadn't thought of that! Thank you for your constructive feedback.
faeyanpiraat · 9 hours ago
How to make it obvious you are from the UK, without mentioning you are from the UK. :D
voidUpdate · 9 hours ago
Is finding bright flashing fullscreen images annoying, and knowing it can cause medical issues for some people a uniquely british thing?
sebastiennight · 13 hours ago
Nice. 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 · 13 hours ago
Looking 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!
CodesInChaos · 9 hours ago
I'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 · 8 hours ago
That'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.

hackerbeat · 10 hours ago
Nice! Reminds me of https://gagzap.com/
dolin_ch · 10 hours ago
I didn't know about that, thank you for the link.
totetsu · 14 hours ago
iOS health app could track this like steps. Total distance scrolled on your phone.
mrunseen · 13 hours ago
There 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 · 13 hours ago
I didn't know that, thank you for the information and for your feedback
2Gkashmiri · 9 hours ago
Never 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 · 13 hours ago
Ahahah, that would be an excellent idea
dolin_ch · 4 days ago
Small experiment about infinite scrolling.

It converts scrolling into a measurable distance.

The more you scroll, the more the site reminds you you're still scrolling.

dolin_ch · 11 hours ago
On smartphones for real-world use ! ;)