Pull to refresh disabling toggle

[miscounted]

Use Cases

Provents you from satisfying your boredom by refreshing subscribtions page.

Proposal

Bad habit of updating the page

Some people compare pull to refresh function to a lever on a gambling machine, because in both examples you pull and expect a different outcome to what you currently have. I found myself doing that for the past few weeks on my subscription feed, maybe that's my personal issue, but at last I want to give this silly idea a go. In fact there are countless people complaining about android chrome removing that toggle during 2019.

Possible solutions:

• refresh button, though doesn't really change much in my eyes.
• no user-accessible refresh function: if you don't want to see latest and greatest or just tolerate your favorite creator's videos being 2-3 minutes old, may be the best solution so far
• stop this habit (wait, it's a solution too?)

Sorry for the informality, at least I had fun explaining.

References

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[serossi]

not a fan of a button tough. the UI needs hefty rework as it is as its already to crowded and should rather be a bit simplified.
you could simply do nothing on a timer

so first pull refreshes and starts timer second pull check timer and do nothing or refresh.

however i dont see a good reason to remove current behaviour. currently sub feed is refreshed on pull but whats the problem with that ? its not costly for cpu or data transfer. i loads only recent 20 ish videos anyway

edit: tldr - WHY ?

[miscounted]

It's just for the sake of breaking habit loop of constantly updating the page in hopes that something new would appear; a "detox" feature so to say. The easiest solution would be the 2nd one I mentioned, as I assume it would require little modification.

The least code modification would be for me to actually stop updating the page, or to delete the app entierly. But how can I blame this fidgity circle that sometimes rewards me? I'd just like an option not to see pull to refresh, and curoius whether someone else would find it useful.

tl;dr - it's for breaking a habit

[serossi]

but but but then you might miss something xD