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Ah, the good old “footer at the bottom of an infinitely long page.” Facebook and Google used to be guilty of this, but it’s been a while since I ran into that
by wlesieutre 7y ago
Ah, the good old “footer at the bottom of an infinitely long page.”
Facebook and Google used to be guilty of this, but it’s been a while since I ran into that particular brand of user-hostile web design.
- wlesieutre 7y agoAddendum - I may have been too harsh here. The page most likely is not infinite. You should able to scroll through the entire backlog of dev.to content to access the footer. Seriously though, you can't just bolt infinite scrolling into the middle of an existing page if you have content at the bottom. If anyone's curious, the footer contains: Home, About, Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, Contact, Code of Conduct, DEV Community copyright 2016 - 2019 They've duplicated most of that (but not the copyright) in the sidebar's "Key Links" box, so it's not as big a problem as I've seen on other sites. If they hadn't, I wonder about the legal implications of making your privacy policy, terms of use, and copyright notice completely unreachable. And why keep them in the footer if you never leave it on screen long enough to click it? Just a "not my job" issue with whoever implemented the continuous scroll? Clearly someone thought about it long enough to put the links somewhere reachable, but not long enough to get rid of the old ones?