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Show HN: How many miles do you think you've scrolled today?
- rootusrootus 6y agoI wonder how well the "pixel distance scrolled" translates into the actual distance your finger moved the wheel.
- mamon 6y agoMy rough estimate is: 2cm finger movement per 800px scrolled.
- azhenley 6y agoMy Logitech MX mouse's wheel keeps spinning and spinning, so not well at all.
- lukax 6y agoThis is a bit hard to calculate because of scroll acceleration and inertial scrolling.
- phoenixdblack 6y agoOr scrolled through swiping on the phone. I think this would be pretty difficult considering the different pixel densities on touch devices.
- jagged-chisel 6y agoSome system-level code would be ideal here. I wonder if, say, Apple logs this info locally (iPhone, iPad, Mac) for touching the screen, the trackpad, or moving a mouse across a surface.
- eqvinox 6y agoYou'd also need to identify the size of the scroll wheel, which is particularly hard if the user has multiple input devices and you don't even know which one they used :) (e.g. touchpad + mouse)
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- thereyougo 6y agoI'd like to see a leaderboard there
- _jal 6y agoCow Clicker 2.0
- joshiefishbein 6y agoThis would be interesting to see on my phone at the end of the day. Even having decreased my social media and news consumption considerably over the last few years, I still catch myself mindlessly scrolling from time to time. I would love the shameful alert that told me “you’ve scrolled twice as many miles as you’ve walked today” since I know the second set of metrics definitely exists. It may be what I need to quit the habit completely.
- jdc 6y agoThat kind of visibility could be really helpful. Doesn't have to be shameful, but it does have to get you off your ass!
- joshiefishbein 6y agoNo it doesn't! In fact it could be as rewarding as seeing those bar graphs that do track my physical activity – only inverted. I'm not sure if that would be possible on iOS. But they do already report app usage and allow you to set timers on your own usage to make sure you aren't spending more than your allowance. "Screen Time": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982
- inetknght 6y agoI think that would actually fit very well alongside eg Apple's "You've had 30 minutes of screen time today" messages
- joezydeco 6y agoThe Apple Lisa had a "mouse odometer" in software that tracked the number of pixels moved since startup.
- spuz 6y agoA long time ago when I used to spend almost all my day in front of a computer, I wrote a program that would measure the physical distance my mouse cursor had moved thinking surely it must be several hundred meters a day. In fact it was only about 30 metres per day. I imagine to scroll a mile would take several months for the average web user.
- ccostes 6y agoIt seems like cursor acceleration (breaking the linearity between pixel and physical distance) would make this non-trivial; curious how you implemented it.
- andai 6y agoYou mean to translate from pixels moved into mousepad-meters?
- GhostVII 6y agoIt sounds like they measures the distance the cursor on-screen moved, not how far they physically moved their mouse. So accelleration wouldn't be a factor.
- spuz 6y agoWell I wanted to specifically measure cursor distance rather than mouse distance so acceleration doesn't come into it. As long as you can sample the mouse position frequently enough, you can get an idea of how far it has travelled. All I had to do to convert pixels to physical distance was use a tape measure to get the width and height of the visible part of the screen.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 6y agoI think my scroll distance varies greatly depending on how many Terms of Services I have to "read" in a given day.
- whynaut 6y agoOne of the best modern uses of the “End” key (or [Cmd/Shift][Up/Down]) Right up there with “who even wrote this article” and “wait when was this published”
- glup 6y agoI was once in a seminar led by one of the world's pre-eminent primate researchers who explained that, without any irony or humor, he refused to scroll when reading emails--Anything important should be immediately visible.
- GGfpc 6y agoSounds like my professors, except they refuse to open the email at all.
- marban 6y agoFor a transactional mail or newsletter, perhaps. But overall I find this often-cited attitude made up by a bunch of productivity hackers highly arrogant.
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- craftinator 6y agoSeems like a trait of those who either don't know how to delegate properly or who have attention deficit issues.
- archview 6y agoI have been developing my email habits to fit this. If my email is turning into a novel I make a point to bring the important information to the top as a TL;DR. If I forward an email chain longer then two emails I condense the email chain in my forwarded email so the reader sees and understands exactly what I need them to see. I have found that if I forward a long email chain/write a novel of an email no one reads the message. The email was a waste of everyone's time. Many of my colleagues simply FW: a chain with a simple FYI in their message. My inbox receives >100 emails a day. I am not going to spend my time reading through a +15 email chain forwarded to me attempting to decipher what ten people are conversing on in that chain.
- starpilot 6y ago3 parsecs
- taksintikk 6y ago1/64th of a mile
- javahava 6y agoIf you're tired of scrolling on your phone's browser: https://www.jumpbrowser.com/ https://www.jumpbrowser.com/
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- michaelcampbell 6y agohttps://whatpulse.org/ https://whatpulse.org/ has been doing this sort of metrics gathering for years. Keyboard and network stuff too.
- dghughes 6y agoWithin the last six months I've developed arthritis in both my hands (and ankles). Each morning when I wake up both of my hands are stiff like they've been in ice water. My right index finger which I use for scrolling using my mouse scroll wheel (and typing). when I bend in in the morning my index finger it will make a snapping noise. None of my other fingers make the snapping noise. The odd thing is it isn't the joint. If I bend my fingers in the morning and my index finger snaps you'd think it was the joint. I experimented and cracked my index knuckle after it made the snap and the knuckle snapped. Anyway that's a tale of my bizarre life somewhat related to this topic.
- adamredwoods 6y agoI find scroll wheels dangerous on the index finger, as it gets quite a workout. I prefer touchpads/ mousepads for scrolling, but I'm curious if foot pedals would be better.
- twicetwice 6y agoInteresting—I scroll with my middle finger, always have. I thought everyone did. Makes sense in retrospect that different people would find different "intuitive" ways of using a mouse, though!
- dghughes 6y agoI do now!
- unnouinceput 6y ago"You will need Google Chrome to install most apps, extensions and themes. Download Google Chrome" Yeah buddy, just wait for me to install that. Any Firefox equivalent?
- aabbcc1241 6y agoHow about WhatPulse? (which doesn't work on my linux distro, sad ...)
- prashantb 6y agoHere you go - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrolltrotter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrolltrotter...
- EvgeniyZh 6y agoI want a system-wide app measuring scrolling distance for smartphones
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y agoI've always joked that some people run a marathon and some people scroll a marathon.
- mpolichette 6y agoI will log this as the first appearance (to me) of the "light mode also available" pendulum swing! See you all in a year!
- prashantb 6y agoThanks. This was a very intentional decision to keep light mode as "also available".
- DonHopkins 6y agoHow long until web sites start offering Frequent Scroller Miles?
- mrlala 6y agoI scroll for light-years because of my logitech mx master 2s which has a ball bearing on the wheel so it can go flying. With a high refresh monitor it's just fun to scroll around!
- cheeze 6y agoAny firefox equivalent?
- prashantb 6y agoHere you go - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrolltrotter/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrolltrotter...
- duke_core 6y agoHow did you go about developing this? Am curious to see what 'level' of chrome its implemented on
- tzvsi 6y agoSource: https://github.com/prashantbaid/scrolltrotter https://github.com/prashantbaid/scrolltrotter
- erikig 6y agoCan "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" Chrome extensions that require such extensive permissions make me extremely nervous and I don't think I'm alone. Is there a way to build this in a way that didn't require such elevated privileges?
- ramenmeal 6y agoI don't think there is a "scrollbar usage" permission.
- jooize 6y agoWe need an extension firewall extension!
- jfoster 6y agoIt's been a while since I dabbled in Chrome extensions, but if nothing has changed, then not as a Chrome extension, unfortunately. If you mean theoretically, then of course; Chrome could let extensions subscribe to particular event hooks and whatnot and get very fine-grained about it. I expect that would actually be too fine-grained for most users, but what they have at the moment is a system where installing almost any extension feels quite risky. I'm not sure that Google really want Chrome extensions to exist, though. It feels like a very neglected part of Chrome.
- prashantb 6y agoOn the last part, I agree with you from a developer's point of view as well. The review process is a shambles at the moment. Sometimes the review process can take weeks and one can still get rejected with no explanation. I understand the need for a manual review when an extension asks for powerful permissions like this one does but an approval time of more than a week is a bit much. And every subsequent update to the extension (even a small description change) also goes through the same review process. Imagine a critical bug fix taking more than a week for approval! It feels like they want to shut down their doors for individual developers. In comparison, firefox took only 2 hours to approve the same extension.
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