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Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Infinite-scroll pages are pretty well-documented to be shit. Even Facebook crashes or slows down to a crawl if I scroll e
by dvt 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Infinite-scroll pages are pretty well-documented to be shit. Even Facebook crashes or slows down to a crawl if I scroll enough (lol?). There might be a good idea somewhere in there, but current implementations fall short.
- accountyaccount 10y agoHow else to you handle an infinite thread of media without completely destroying browser performance? Seems to be an foundational internet issue.
- jrochkind1 10y agoYou know what just occured to me -- Slack is effectively 'inifinite scroll' too (no pagination), of quite a bitof content sometimes... and I don't think people complain much about this aspect of Slack. Wonder how they managed to get it right.
- theparanoid 10y agoThey add a nice ("109 comments since April 30th") link to click at the top of the chat window that does exactly what it says. Also there's a custom search box so ctrl+F isn't as broken.
- naiyt 10y agoBecause Slack is a chat system and you typically just care about the most recent messages (which are always displayed). I find scrolling back in Slack to actually be very irritating, when I have to do it. It's slow and the view jumps around whenever the next page loads in. (The UX on the search functionality is also fairly lacking.)
- codinghorror 10y agoYeah, people basically don't care at all about chat history. Chat is short-term memory; forgetting is a feature.