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wasoxygen · 3039 days ago · link · · parent · post: I just launched the first official issue of my literary zine! It clocks in at 25 minutes to read in its entirety.
I was DFW too! Maybe we are all DFW. Why not? I can see the mendacious scrollbar both ways. If it really showed me how far I fad to go, I might have given up at the start. But it's mendacious. As a user interface design, I don't hate the "infinite scroll" pattern, it seems a little advantageous compared to paging. Probably this is far too much analysis for a zine that gives an estimate down to the second of time to consume. I plead irrationally, as one who dreads starting a thousand-page novel, then 400 pages in regrets that it's almost done.