scroller

plural scrollers

1. One who, or that which, scrolls.

   My girlfriend Fran is a chronic scroller. She always seems to have her phone in her hand when we are watching something, or having a conversation.

   2024 September 27, Georgina Lawton, “You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop scrolling on her phone while we’re watching TV?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   1 more example

   So, this final challenge is for the readers of stories, the watchers of television news, the scrollers of online media. Fund the journalism you want to see.

   2021, Bernadine Jones, Elections and TV News in South Africa: Desperately Seeking Depth, page 233

2. computingSynonym of scrolly (“scrolling message”).

   In fact there were already such scrollers before but as the creators told it in the scroller, they wrote this routine two years before releasing the demo […]

   2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 65

   Synonyms: scrolly