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Isn't this better solved with a combination of bookmarking, tagging, good search, and resetting the person to the same spot on a page when it reloads? (facebook
by foota 8y ago
Isn't this better solved with a combination of bookmarking, tagging, good search, and resetting the person to the same spot on a page when it reloads? (facebook doesn't do the latter for instance, and it's massively frustrating to me)
- calvano915 8y agoThe bit on Facebook is purposeful. Youtube does the same thing. It's about keeping the user engaged with another novel engagement whether ad or content driven. You may be frustrated and possibly rage quit, but the majority fall for it cyclically and spend more time on the service as a result. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread: "As someone with ADHD, I immediately close any website that uses infinite scroll. I will become insanely focused on that site to the point that I tune out the outside world. What begins as "oh, I'll just look at this one article" turns into at least a half hour of wasted time before I'll be able to break out of it."
- mrob 8y agoNone of that will be as fast and simple as pressing Control-f and typing the search term. You don't even need to press enter. Searching within the page is a superbly useful and well-designed interface, and I would be very surprised if any custom web app solution could do better.
- paulryanrogers 8y agoIf only they had regular expression support in the built in find. A few times I've put that into web apps and found it quite useful.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI bet there's a browser extension for that.
- foota 8y agoThe alternative to infinite scrolling isn't everything on one page though, it's paging.