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Infinite scrolling is typically annoying, often making you do busy work to find content you want, and frankly a worse solution than just having multiple pages.

Infinite scrolling is typically annoying, often making you do busy work to find content you want, and frankly a worse solution than just having multiple pages. So if it's also harder, why do it?

deelowe 10y ago
Thank you. Infinite scroll sucks.
- phatfish 10y ago
  For something like the Facebook timeline that is unreasonable to paginate i tolerate it. But what annoys me most is when a finite list for a few hundred items has an infinite scroll. Especially when it's a list like favorites where you would what to browse to any point equally as often (im looking at you SoundCloud). I'm hoping that infinite scroll looses the hipster appeal sooner or later and we can implement the best solution rather than jumping on the bandwagon all the time (SoundCloud's favorites were paginated a few years ago).
crummy 10y ago
I'd rather infinite scroll my twitter feed than keep clicking Next Page.
- zappo2938 10y ago
  It really depends how people are using it. If people are looking for random interesting content then an infinite scroll makes sense. If you add the amount of internet time spent is using Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit (app or RES), then we can conclude that it is at a deeper level a better user interface for certain types of content. People calling something that most people just prefer without thinking about it and is mainstream 'hipster appeal' is quite ironic.
  - gkya 10y ago
    People use whatever is there. We used websites and apps before infinite scroll was a thing. The fact that some hacker types (me included) prefer this or that is mostly irrelevant to the plain user.
- swah 10y ago
  I rather (live) search it...
onion2k 10y ago
The bad experiences that lead people to complain about it stem from poor implementations of the effect. Infinite scrolling done well is a great experience - if there's plenty of content loaded at the start, further content loads before you reach the bottom of the page, there's no pause or jank, and it's used it on pages where the user is browsing everything rather than looking for something specific, then it's good. Those criteria are a pretty limited scope though.
- ent 10y ago
  It's not just reaching the bottom that's annoying, it's stuff like trying to search with ctrl-f for content that just isn't there yet or following a link, clicking back and the viewport jumping up to the top instead of where you left.
  - vitd 10y ago
    Also - not being able to see how far into the content you are based on the position of the scroll thumb.
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scotty79 10y ago
> often making you do busy work to find content you want, All infinite scrolls should come with a filter that lets you hide all of the stuff you are not looking for.

Infinite scrolling is typically annoying, often making you do busy work to find content you want, and frankly a worse solution than just having multiple pages. So if it's also harder, why do it?

deelowe 10y ago

Thank you. Infinite scroll sucks.

phatfish 10y ago
For something like the Facebook timeline that is unreasonable to paginate i tolerate it. But what annoys me most is when a finite list for a few hundred items has an infinite scroll. Especially when it's a list like favorites where you would what to browse to any point equally as often (im looking at you SoundCloud). I'm hoping that infinite scroll looses the hipster appeal sooner or later and we can implement the best solution rather than jumping on the bandwagon all the time (SoundCloud's favorites were paginated a few years ago).

crummy 10y ago

I'd rather infinite scroll my twitter feed than keep clicking Next Page.

zappo2938 10y ago
It really depends how people are using it. If people are looking for random interesting content then an infinite scroll makes sense. If you add the amount of internet time spent is using Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit (app or RES), then we can conclude that it is at a deeper level a better user interface for certain types of content. People calling something that most people just prefer without thinking about it and is mainstream 'hipster appeal' is quite ironic.
- gkya 10y ago
  People use whatever is there. We used websites and apps before infinite scroll was a thing. The fact that some hacker types (me included) prefer this or that is mostly irrelevant to the plain user.
swah 10y ago
I rather (live) search it...

onion2k 10y ago

The bad experiences that lead people to complain about it stem from poor implementations of the effect. Infinite scrolling done well is a great experience - if there's plenty of content loaded at the start, further content loads before you reach the bottom of the page, there's no pause or jank, and it's used it on pages where the user is browsing everything rather than looking for something specific, then it's good. Those criteria are a pretty limited scope though.

ent 10y ago
It's not just reaching the bottom that's annoying, it's stuff like trying to search with ctrl-f for content that just isn't there yet or following a link, clicking back and the viewport jumping up to the top instead of where you left.
- vitd 10y ago
  Also - not being able to see how far into the content you are based on the position of the scroll thumb.

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scotty79 10y ago

> often making you do busy work to find content you want, All infinite scrolls should come with a filter that lets you hide all of the stuff you are not looking for.