Ask HN: Make the HN Top Nav Bar Sticky

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12102484

by webtechgal • 10 years ago

4 2 10 years ago

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This is a question as well as a suggestion for HN.

Threads with lots of interest grow big (duh! :-))

Then, we keep scrolling down and down reading, and the top nav bar (orange) scrolls along with the page.

Then it becomes kinda painful to scroll back to the top.

My question/suggestion is, can it not be made sticky, or another option - can it not be shown again in the footer?

That would make for a better UX, at least for me. What do you all think?

krapp• 10 years ago

You're certain to be able to do this with a single keypress - probably the home key.

Although this might be more convenient for mobile users, I can see it being rejected on the basis of not being minimalist.

mirkules• 10 years ago

It depends on the medium. On the desktop it's not a huge deal - I just hit the home button and I'm back to the top.

If we're talking about mobile, I agree with you partially. In fact, there is a whole lot of improvements to be made for mobile devices, not just scrolling. The recent addition of undoing your vote is a direct result of not having a mobile interface at all, since the arrows are too small to finger. So, instead of creating a mobile version of the site, they "patched" the UX problem.

And so a sticky header would only patch the UX problem - the problem being a complete lack of mobile design. It baffles me why a site that is the source of bleeding edge technology news for many of us can't design a mobile site.

Ask HN: Make the HN Top Nav Bar Sticky

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