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YouScroll /Pinned comments for YouTube

Keep watching.Keep exploring.

On YouTube, reading the comments pushes the video off the top of the screen. YouScroll moves the comments into the right-hand column as a full-height panel that scrolls on its own, and leaves the player where it is.

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Runs on youtube.com and nowhere else

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Watch ↔ Read ↔ Browse

01 /Deliberately narrow

One small change.A better flow.

YouScroll changes the layout of the YouTube watch page and nothing else. Local-first, with no developer-operated server.

Site it runs on: 1; www.youtube.com — no other sites, tabs or history
Tabs in the panel: 2; Comments and Up Next, your choice first
Settings object stored: 1; Which features are on, which tab opens
Network requests of its own: 0; No analytics, advertising SDK or remote code

02 /Inside YouScroll

The video stays.The page moves around it.

Comments panel01 / 03

Comments get their own column.

Read without losing the video.

The comments move into the right-hand column as a sticky, full-height pane that scrolls independently of the page. YouTube’s own lazy loading keeps working inside it: scroll to the bottom and the next page of comments loads exactly as it normally would.

Sticky, full-height panel
Scrolls independently of the page
YouTube’s own loading, untouched

A watch page with the comments pinned in a full-height panel beside the video.

Comments · Up Next02 / 03

One tab apart.

Moved, not replaced.

Switch between Comments and Up Next with a tab bar, so the recommendations are moved rather than replaced, and choose which one opens first.

Comments and Up Next in one panel
Pick the tab that opens first

Picture-in-Picture03 / 03

Pop the video out.

Float it above everything.

Pop the video out into your browser’s Picture-in-Picture window from a button in YouTube’s own control bar, so it floats above your other applications.

Toggle either feature from the toolbar popup
Takes effect in open tabs, without a reload

03 /Where it runs

One site.One settings object.

No YouScroll account, analytics service, advertising SDK or developer-operated server. The build fails if a host pattern ever escapes www.youtube.com.

Local-first, deliberately narrow.

The extension makes no network requests of its own and contains no remote code. The only thing it stores is a small settings object: which features are switched on, and which tab the panel opens on.

The panel and the pop-out button are ordinary elements in the page, so scripts running on that page can see them, exactly as they can see the rest of the page.

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Host access: https://www.youtube.com/* only — to move YouTube’s own comments and recommendations into the panel, and put them back when a feature is switched off.
Storage: chrome.storage.sync holds one settings object. If you are signed into Chrome, it syncs between your own browsers through Chrome’s own sync.
Not used: No background service worker, no tabs or scripting permission, and no optional permissions.

04 /Good manners

It steps aside, on purpose.

Every change YouScroll makes carries its own undo. Switch a feature off and YouTube’s layout returns exactly as it was.

Theater mode and fullscreen

YouTube reflows into one wide column, so the panel stands down. Press T or leave fullscreen and it comes back.

Narrow windows

Below YouTube’s own two-column breakpoint you get stock YouTube instead of a half-applied layout. Widen the window past roughly 1020 pixels.

No comments to pin

Videos with comments disabled, and live streams, which show a chat panel instead of comments.

05 /Documentation

Everything, written down.

What YouScroll stores, and where to get help. Licensed under Apache 2.0.

06 /Get YouScroll

Free on the Chrome Web Store

Keep the videoin view.

Add it to Chrome and open any YouTube video. Questions, privacy requests and support: codecube99@gmail.com

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