Comment on The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead

bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  On many Android phones swiping from the outside edge of the screen inwards either from the left or right edge, it behaves like you tapped the “back” button. It is extremely useful to get out of for example an article that was opened on Lemmy or simply navigating through menus on your phone.

  A swipe either left or right from the middle-ish of the screen is what you would expect to take you from the previous or next article. Not from the edge.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My android doesn’t seem to do that.

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    • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You have to enable the gestures bar

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      • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think they’re much more likely ignorant to this than malicious.

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      • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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        What version are you using? It is still working for me on Android 15

        (what would be a good alternative to Imgur for gif/video hosting? Even though I always use the direct link)

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      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Idk why we had to get rid of swipe up from the bottom where the 3 icons used to always be. Now if you want to get at all the open stuff I have to execute a corner.

        That first day was a real bitch and a half.

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      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also sucked for a bit due to the “drawer” style Google pushed before lmao, swipe from left to right “oops opened the drawer menu”

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• hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s pretty much the standard.

  • On iPhones and iPads, swipe from the left to go back. In a book on such a device, swipe from the right to go forward.
  • On eReaders, particularly Kindles, tap on the right side to go forward; tap on the left side to go back.
  • On Android with gestures enabled, swipe from the left side to go back. Or… swipe from the right side to go back. Counter intuitive but apparently at least one person uses that.

  Assuming OP has standard gestures enabled, they could still swipe from the left side.

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  • three@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right-handed android user. I shan’t be reaching across my screen with my right thumb to use my gestures “correctly”.

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    • __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It is almost like this is why we had originally decided to put navigation buttons at the very bottom of the screen where they are easily accessible both by left- and right-handed users.

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      • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And then larger and larger “handheld” devices made that physically awkward as people tend to hold their phone near the middle to balance the weight and oh look my thumb doesn’t reach the top or bottom anymore!

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      • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Gestures are also easily accessible by both left and right handed users, when one side hasn’t been replaced with a different function.

        • Android user that uses either hand (depending on how hard I’m yoinking of course)

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    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I didn’t say it wasn’t convenient. I said it was counter intuitive.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I shouldn’t have to adjust my grip on my phone to change the way I swipe to exit the website because that website decided to replace a commonly used functionality to make it more difficult to leave their website. I kid you not I almost didn’t see that button because my thumb was naturally placed in front of it.

    There is already a way to make a gesture that navigates “previous” or “next” by swiping left or right. It is by swiping from the center of the screen outwards and it is how that website should have made that gesture work if they didn’t want to interfere with Android navigation gesture users.

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