Yes, I confirm this problem (that I was too busy and lazy to file in the past days). This is a relatively recent regression, probably caused by the redesign of workboards with fixed width and "own" scrolling.

You can also reproduce it trying to move a task at the end of the "Details" column at https://secure.phabricator.com/project/board/404/

Workboards don't have their own scrolling (see T5002 for that implementation), at least not "JS" powered. It's just CSS styling of the browser - so not a regression.

We've just always been bad at scrolling. I'll file an uber task of all scrolling issues and attach this (likely all scrolling issues should be resolved in the same dif).

◀ Merged tasks: T4221.

Or we can make this the uber task. :)

Chad covered a big chunk of this, but I think there are several separate but related issues here:

• In every drag-and-drop UI, dragging near the edge of the screen should scroll scrollable panels. This is fairly easy in the general case but less easy in the lots-of-nested-scrollable-things case.
• The actual original issue here is buggy, too, but probably will be resolved when screen-edge-scroll gets fixed.
• We plan to make columns scroll internally (T5002) like Trello. (I'm not totally 100% sold on this just yet, but it works for Trello, and is definitely worth at least trying.) This would prevent the long-column-next-to-short-column case from occurring, effectively.
• T4476 discusses making the drop area infinitely tall and/or making a "whole column" target which is distinct from dropping into a specific slot (these interact with T4807).
• We'll probably also add some kind of "Move to column..." action eventually, since you, e.g., can't reasonably drag and drop at all on mobile, or if you're blind, or if you have limited manual dexterity.

For workboards.. could you just have column titles stick at the top of the page when you scroll down? Then we could use that a drop target when move tasks between columns

Do you mean T5002?

@chad I do.. sorry missed that being added.. I'll comment there

◀ Merged tasks: T5624.

◀ Merged tasks: T5676.

◀ Merged tasks: T5789.

◀ Merged tasks: T5002.

man, default priority sort seemed so promising in theory and is so terrible in practice

I presume per column scrolling would change this behavior, but right now if there is a single long list I end up with double vertical scrollbars and can't use pagedown/down-arrow etc until I click somewhere.

Is it just me, or the new workboards have brought a regression?

Before, in workboards with long columns, I could could drag a card anywhere by grabbing it and then scrolling with the arrow keys. Now I can't find a way to scroll the board while grabbing a card.

Hm, never mind. Now it works. I'm not sure what happened earlier today. Will pay more attention if I have problems again.

What about making drop zones ultra long down i.e. to show only names at the top and allow users to drop anywhere, not necessarily at current small "drop zone" at the top?

Also H J K L keyboard shortcuts would greatly speed up organizing tasks on a board. Maybe also have "space" as a pick up or drop key. Would be fun! Joystick support optional.

In a semi-related topic, I find myself constantly expecting Trello-style behavior where a user can click + drag outside of cards to scroll vertically/horizontally.

We're probably going to do per column scrolling, or at least see how it feels in testing. Will have to see where we end up.

I think we can do the background drag thing too, that shouldn't interact poorly with anything else (I think? Probably?).