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Was wondering that and then told myself, come on, nobody would be that evil, the whole idea is nonsense. And you're suggesting there are websites out there that
by mar77i 7y ago
Was wondering that and then told myself, come on, nobody would be that evil, the whole idea is nonsense. And you're suggesting there are websites out there that actually do that?
- leokennis 7y agoNot evil, but stupid.
- wlesieutre 7y agoGoogle (image search) and Facebook (news feed) have both done this. Last time it came up I was able to find a screen shot of one of them but not the other, let me see if I can dig that up. I don't think they did it deliberately, but I'd bet someone said "We could increase engagement if people didn't have to click anything to keep seeing more content" and nobody bothered to think about other design consequences of automatically expanding the content downward forever. EDIT: A screenshot of Facebook's in mid-2013 is shown here under the "Unreachable" header https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/infinite-scrolling-lets-get-to-the-bottom-of-this/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/infinite-scrolling-... Or straight to the image: https://cloud.netlifyusercontent.com/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629/a1c917a5-6828-490d-ae2e-15b49a5e8c05/facebook-loading-footer.png https://cloud.netlifyusercontent.com/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42...
- dabernathy89 7y agoI have seen this multiple times. It's almost certainly out of ignorance, and not intentional. Just someone trying to implement a slick UI without really thinking it through.
- vollmond 7y agoOld Navy does this. There's a limit; 3 or so "loads" finally gets you to the footer. https://oldnavy.gap.com/ https://oldnavy.gap.com/
- snisarenko 7y agohttps://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoPlenty. Most likely because they first have a footer, then someone says "MUST IMPLEMENT INFINITE SCROLLING", and then you get that.