Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them. Also, comments can shif

Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them. Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23195291