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.
vivzkestrel 39 minutes ago [-]
- 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
- 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
codeulike 6 hours ago [-]
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 ...
stephbook 2 hours ago [-]
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.
skerit 1 hours ago [-]
I hate the new way scrolling works in the Youtube & Netflix apps. So janky.
peterlada 6 hours ago [-]
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 2 hours ago [-]
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.
renewiltord 6 hours ago [-]
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.
oleganza 8 hours ago [-]
TV examples show that Apple simply has done their scrolling right, while everyone else did not work out the necessary details.
IneffablePigeon 5 hours ago [-]
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 3 hours ago [-]
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 3 hours ago [-]
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).
- 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
- 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
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.
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.
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.
> 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...