Upstairs - Downstairs

Only a suggestion from an ageing member with the onset of RSI who spends too much time on here.

I appreciate and often use the Return to Top arrow in the forum threads. However, I also find myself wanting to go back downstairs as quickly as I went up. I think it would be helpful, and aesthetically pleasing to the eye, to have a Return to Bottom arrow next to the Up one.

a reply to: Encia22
Use the space bar on your keyboard,does the same thing.

There is a button called "Pos1" in the block above the arrows that will bring you to the top of every document, on your keyboard

The button "End" does the same but will bring you to the end of a document. Right next to it are two more buttons, they will let you scroll in steps.

originally posted by: glen200376
a reply to: Encia22
Use the space bar on your keyboard,does the same thing.

Cheers for the tip. I'm thinking more about my mobile experience, which is 90% of the time spent here.

also if on a desktop you can use the home key / page up keys and end / page down keys.

originally posted by: ThatDamnDuckAgain
There is a button called "Pos1" in the block above the arrows that will bring you to the top of every document, on your keyboard

The button "End" does the same but will bring you to the end of a document. Right next to it are two more buttons, they will let you scroll in steps.

This stuff doesn't work on a smartphone. The poster has a good idea.

I don't use the mobile often, hate using my phone for internet. Or really anything other than phone calls, and bathroom games (don't pretend you don't need something to do on the toilet too).

I suggest a Franzl Lang icon. For the music forum. That doesn't get used enough. Dude is a legend though. Oesch's die Dritten is pretty good too. Non yodelers though, I suggest Weird Al. Classic. Foil.

ETA: I approve of the OPs suggestion.


Okay I'm done.

a reply to: VierEyes

Agreed! I did not consider smartphones

I also vote for having this. It's a good idea for smartphoners so why not.

a reply to: ThatDamnDuckAgain

Sorry, my bad, I didn't specify that in my OP.

Yes, it's quite easy to swipe up and down on a smartphone, but when I'm doing it for hours (between work and play) it becomes rather tedious and tiring.

I actually have an app on my phone that auto scrolls the page and has been a tendon saver. I'll make a new thread to introduce it to the Community. However, it's a slow scroll and is perfect for reading, but not for zipping up and down the thread staircase, thus why I use the Up arrow extensively.

Anyway, I appreciate the nods and let's see if the Administrators consider implementing it.

a reply to: Encia22

Nothing to excuse for, I could have thought about it myself.

And in the meantime, maybe someone can share a trick like double tapping somewhere to scroll up completely? Sometimes it's as easy as that

I mean.. the swipe navigation has that backdraw in any kind of long list so there had to be thought of an easy solution, I would think.

a reply to: ThatDamnDuckAgain

I've tried almost every trick I know. I'm an IT Admin, so I Iove to tinker with tech... I still use, almost exclusively, keyboard shortcuts back from the good old DOS days. Unfortunately, smartphones have many limitations in this regard. I've been through all the chrome://flags/ config options and found nothing useful. I've tried many third party apps and only the one I mentioned is of any real use, at least for fingerless scrolling.

Any new tips are warmly welcomed!

I see a conspiracy in the bushes about planned obsolete display surface abrasion, that didn't workout because the lifetime is just 2-4 years anyways. The design section won that fight against the material nerds.

a reply to: ThatDamnDuckAgain

LOL!!

That reminds me of JerryRigEverything (YT channel).

Glass is glass, and scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7.

There are two keys on a keyboard labeled Home and End.

That is all.

ETA I say all, but there are way more keys on a keyboard than two.

We now return you to your normal programming, unless you're on mobile and then all bets are off and the insurance doesn't pay out for either of us.


ETA Getting my typos wrong. Shhh!

originally posted by: Encia22
a reply to: ThatDamnDuckAgain
That reminds me of JerryRigEverything (YT channel).

lol I have to check out.

a reply to: ThatDamnDuckAgain

He's Great!

Basically, he takes the latest and greatest smartphones and tests them to destruction. His videos are normally in two parts. 1) He tests the screen's resistance to burning and scratching, hence the quoted line, which has become his most famous line, proceeding with scratch testing the phone's outer case and a flex test.
2) He then does a teardown to examine the innards, showing how well made, or not, the phone is.

He also does other DIY projects, even down to building those massive Lego Technics sets... and much more...