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The solution to all of society’s ills: Ban infinite scrolling
by sydthrowaway 5y ago
The solution to all of society’s ills: Ban infinite scrolling
- speed_spread 5y agoYou're so soft. The solution is to ban all browser-side scripting.
- socialist_coder 5y agoAnd recommended content. All content should only be surfaced via search, or lists that are the same for every user. And autoplay next content should default to off.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoColor screens need to go first.
- sydthrowaway 5y agoI can see this part of Dune-esque luddite uprising
- tomcatfish 5y agoYeah, let's skip to the end and ban algorithms, they are the source of so many of my problems I work in computers btw
- raxxorrax 5y agoColor screens are useful, infinite scrolling is not. Not only makes it indexing much more difficult or sometimes even impossible due to lacking standards, it also disallows users exchanging links to something specific. Crawlers would have to execute JS and do additional requests, which is not feasible at all. Content shouldn't be optimized for the most brittle consuming users and infinite scroll should be an anti-pattern of the most severe degree. I don't know which boneheaded webdevs recommend it to customers, since it is a most effective mechanism to kill discoverability.