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Jump back to specific point? #44

Closed jefdaj closed 4 years ago

jefdaj commented 4 years ago

This is great! I got impatient scrolling through Jeff Bezos' wealth though, the first long element you don't know will have more content in it. Then I wanted to scroll back and see what I missed. Could there be some kind of little progress ticker on the bottom like "scrolled 0.4%" so people can find their way back to the right spot?

EDIT: there is just such a ticker! I guess all I want is for it to start slightly sooner.

MKorostoff commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion. Variants of this have actually been suggested once or twice before, i.e. that people might leave early because they don't know the explanatory text is coming. I don't want the text or the ticker to show any sooner, because I think it sort of spoils the reveal. The impact of this work largely comes from 1) having a certain expectation about the size of these numbers and 2) having that expectation repeatedly and dramatically broken.

That said, there might be some virtue in a table of contents in the readme file, so that returning visitors can hop around to different sections more easily. I'd be open to a pull request to that effect, otherwise I'll probably role that feature out myself eventually.