• manned_meatball@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I never understood this argument. I can’t read more than one post at a time anyways and images are not immediately visible in the list view. What makes you want 18 posts visible at once?

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      1 year ago

      So you can select the post you want to actually look at instead of having to scroll and scroll to find one that interests you. Like in a classical forum post, essentially.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed. It makes the posts you don’t want to see much easier to ignore. Even my favorite subreddits have posts I don’t care about, like r/fantasy posts praising Mistnorn for the billionth time.

        I don’t want giant images in my face right away, either, without warning of what they contain, especially if browsing unfamiliar or large subreddits.

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        1 year ago

        That and I have tendonitis so less scrolling past crap I don’t care about means I have less pain / no pain.

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          1 year ago

          About a decade ago, Logitech had this awesome mouse with a freewheel spinning middle mouse button. It allowed for a long spin after release and was excellent for up and down scrolling on a large page. Sadly they don’t seem to be made anymore. They were really fun.