How a WordPress Bug Only Affected Left-Handed Users
A bug which affected only left handed users
I discovered a quirky bug on my WordPress site that only triggered when left-handed users scrolled with their left thumb. The issue stemmed from an outdated touch event listener added years ago to handle tap delays, which was long obsolete. After seven years of reports, I finally fixed it by deleting a few lines of code, highlighting how small technical oversights can create invisible barriers for specific user groups.
A bug which won't be triggered by righteous people but infuriating to those who will surely be left behind after The Rapture.
- incognito124
Reminds me of this old youtube bug where some of the videos that were uploaded ended up upside down because of a phone orientation during recording:
https://bruteforceswimathon.medium.com/youtube-help-my-video...
- naikrovek
As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely.
I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see.
So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people, us southpaws are not laughing. And if you try to tell me you are, I seriously doubt that you are left-handed.
- Gunax
The worst curse put upon us is XNA games engine, which was unable to distinguish primary from secondary clicks. So players who swapped mouse buttons at the OS level were out of luck.
Most developers assumed that left click = primary click, but that's only true about 95% of the time.
Terraria, among others, still has this bug.
- gpvos
I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.
- BrenBarn
I had to read this a couple times and look at the comments here before I realized they were talking about scrolling on a phone. I was like "who scrolls with their thumb?"