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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

Here's a weird idea...what if we were to make use of a vertical toolbar that forever lived on, say, the left side of the screen on "desktop" resolutions? We have more horizontal real estate than vertical.

I do like some things "following me around", because I don't want to have to scroll up to the top after every article, much less "roughly halfway but not quite almost though" to find the reaction buttons. Yeah, I know we have the Home button, but I'm lazy (we'll call THAT what it is!)

But maybe if all those actually useful things, plus a "back to top" button, lived on a handy left-side vertical toolbar, it'd work better?

yeah, but it's never been done before

Neither had floating toolbars for the first 20-30 years of the internet.