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Please fix unwanted scrolling on touchscreen on Puzzle Storm

I play exclusively on touchscreen. Lichess (in Chrome on both Windows 10 and Android) has the odd/annoying touchscreen behavior that if you misclick dragging a piece and accidentally grab either an empty square on the board, or just outside the board, you end up scrolling the page vertically. Fortunately, on normal game pages, there isn't anything below the game board to scroll to and this behavior is unnoticed.

On Puzzle Storm, however, there is the obnoxiously large high scores div below the game board that makes unintentional vertical scrolling (on my laptop and preferred large-as-possible board size) very frequent and HIGHLY disruptive -- when you suddently accidentally scroll way down (cutting off the top rank of the board) you must spend precious time scrolling back up, while hoping not to misclick again and make a wrong move on the board.

Please, can you remove the unneeded high scores listing below the game board (Or at least make it smaller and to the side of instead of below the game board)? This information could just as well (or better) be on the post-run results page instead of the game page.

For now, I have used the chrome extension "Click To Remove Element" to permanently remove the three problematic bottom divs. This gets rid of the vertical scrollbar entirely for me when playing on full screen and makes things go much much smoother, but this isn't a great fix since this info isn't on the other page.
Puzzle Racer also suffers from this problem. There, however, it is much less desirable to remove the elements below the game board since (the race "course") so the fix won't be as easy there. It would be nice if dragging on an unoccupied square did not initiate the scrolling behavior on touchscreen.

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