Ask HN: Why isn't bookmarking scroll position a thing?

A regular problem I have with the web is that I will find an interesting article and start reading only to later see how tiny the scroll bar is on the page and realise I don't have the time to finish in that moment. Now it seems like my only option is to bookmark the entire page and later scroll up and down trying to find my spot. This seems odd considering how ubiquitous the concept of bookmarks has been for centuries. It is common to be able to store locations in modern formats like video and music and be prompted whether to restore location or restart but not older formats like text. Bulletin boards often track the last page you visited but not which comments you've scrolled past. Although this is different to reading a single large body of text. It's made even worse by the fact that most pages load many trackers, some of which even track user scrolling, but that this i

Kind

startup

Status

Shut down

Inventor

12907835202

Ended

2023

Source

hackernews