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When I hear "infinite scroll" I think of the way Facebook or Reddit just keeps loading new content as I scroll. But this article is really mostly about the sor
by elpool2 7y ago
When I hear "infinite scroll" I think of the way Facebook or Reddit just keeps loading new content as I scroll. But this article is really mostly about the sorry state of advertising on the web, and talks about sites that just have an infinitely long list of chumbox ads at the bottom of the page. No content, just infinite ads. The use of infinite scroll by Facebook or Reddit is controversial in its own right, but this is really a different kind of "infinite scroll" that I didn't even existed, I guess because I use an ad-blocker.
- ImpressiveWebs 7y agoReddit doesn’t use infinite scroll. I think you mean Twitter, no?
- saagarjha 7y agoIt does, unless you're on old.reddit.com.
- OrderlyTiamat 7y agoWith res you can have infinite scroll on old.reddit.com as well. Which I actually like, but res comes with more shortcut bases behaviors so that may have something to do with it. I feel like the entire package gives me more control over how I browse reddit, not less.
- ImpressiveWebs 7y agoYep, I forgot about the new design. Tried it again just now, what a train wreck! I didn’t realize it has infinite scroll, only tried it briefly before.
- mcherm 7y agoSure, but why WOULDN'T you choose to use old.reddit.com ?
- AdmiralGinge 7y agoThere's loads of reasons not to! Monks who are trying to exercise their patience skills would find it very useful for example. Those who stress test input devices for peripherals companies will surely be a fan of the much increased need to click to read a thread as well.
- qqssccfftt 7y agoTwitter doesn't actually have infinite scroll. It caps eventually.
- Dahoon 7y agoIt does and it even have links in the footer that you can't reach.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agowhy would anyone keep scrolling when they reach the ads at the bottom of the page?
- skohan 7y agoI know some sites and/or ads are deliberately designed to make advertising hard to distinguish from content. It's probably the kind of thing which has a very low success rate, but an even lower cost so it ends up getting implemented.
- skohan 7y agoI've noticed that a lot of shopping sites have gotten rid of infinite scroll in favor of a "load more" button on the bottom of the page. I wonder if this is motivated by product reasons, or if it's done to solve technical problems.
- totony 7y agoinstinctively i would say a load more button would sell more than infinite scroll since it limits the information shown to the user, which mean he's more likely to act (e.g. less "paralysis by analysis")
- wruza 7y agoActually if analysis was quick enough, I’d prefer to see all items at once. But what they do is re-xhr on every filter click, making it impossible. What’s wrong with just loading a big json of all items in a given group and allow me to sort/filter/compare quickly to find good ones? Their funny “web 2.0 framework” is at least 5 times heavier than the entire product base gzipped, and still uses web 1.0 style to operate. The only 2.0 thing about that is how flipping quick their backend paralyzes their clients.