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I really only want to comment to say that this man’s website is very well designed except for that it does not let me use my scrollbar on my phone.

But if I must also comment about the article itself he comes across as out of touch with reality and human nature.

I don’t fault him for this but it is what it is and you can lay everything out for people as pretty as you’d like with wonderful transitions and colors but if you neglect the fact that people still want to scrub up and down the page to get a feel for what you’re trying to present to them on their own well, why’d you do that?

Just read this on my Android phone. No issues for me, but my phone uses swiping to scroll. Scollbars are a desktop convention and the author didn't make the decision to exclude them from mobile interfaces. I found the article well written and would like to understand how you felt it as out of touch with reality. Is it that Jan 6th didn't happen or that Hillary Clinton sued to have recounts in all states and it was just never covered in any media? I didn't catch any fake facts in the article like welfare queens or all illegal immigrants are Mexican rapists or pet eating Hatians in the article. What was out of touch? Not designing the UI to have scollbars on mobile like desktop?

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I suspect an attempt to make an analogy between Trump's disrespect for rules and Apple's bucking of rules of desktop computing when choosing many of the conventions for mobile and how they won the market. I would offer that making the rules and breaking them are different. Apple didn't return to scrollbars or physical keyboards on phones after Android followed their "rules" (ie interface conventions) and took a large market share from them. They did change the default direction of track pad scrolling in their desktop OS in a way they was bucking a long standing tradition but they allow users to change it. The didn't break a rule here, they just provide a way a user can choose to.

The sentiment that the article carries implies a level playing field culturally, ideologically, existentially…just about every component that determines how people feel and think about themselves and what they base communities off of. These principles are no longer enumerated to all at once all of the time and we are responsible for this collapse. These principles are even categorized under opposing interests and influences.

I’m not thinking about market share and disputes over UI conventions between vendors when I can’t go up and down on a webpage the way I can on virtually every other webpage no matter how sensible those things may sound in theory, in practice they’re irrelevant to me. I guess the same way a person is not thinking about whether or not they care about January 6, or whether all immigrants are Mexican rapists, or whether Haitians eat cats when they are upset about their relationship with themselves and their immediate community.

Yes okay, fine, sure, I’m sorry, I gotcha. But that doesn’t change how I feel or how I think about what I’m actually upset about because I am a human being and the part of me that makes me feel alive is indifferent to reason in the conventional sense and I don’t know you well enough to know that dying next to you is a better alternative.