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Infinite-scrolling is awful for 2 reasons: 1. What you’re currently looking at is not directly addressable (instead it’s “open this URL, within this time-windo
by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
Infinite-scrolling is awful for 2 reasons:
1. What you’re currently looking at is not directly addressable (instead it’s “open this URL, within this time-window, and scroll exactly X-many pixels in exactly S-seconds to get to the exact same content as me”).
2. It makes it impossible to get to the real page footer, which often contains essential links like Contact Us, the About/Impressum page, and other important stuff.
- ativzzz 5y agoFor #1 it's the same because the content on each page is dependent on reddit's algorithm, which may change by the time you load up the next page (maybe reddit has some caching that prevents this), so if you link page 3 to someone, they will see something different depending on when they open the link For #2 that's useful for novice users but as a reddit user for who knows how many years I don't care about the footer
- heartbreak 5y agoThe truly awful implementation is the paging of comments on this website.