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An exception: I find Duck Duck Go's infinite scroll quite pleasant, and find paginated results quite cumbersome. Elsewhere it's just annoying. Especially when
by jraph 5y ago
An exception: I find Duck Duck Go's infinite scroll quite pleasant, and find paginated results quite cumbersome.
Elsewhere it's just annoying. Especially when a misclick makes you lose the position. Dilbert's website is a good example of this. For Reddit or Twitter I don't know, I read them using libreddit and nitter when I occasionally land on them from a link or a search result. TikTok and Facebook I have never tried.
- ethbr0 5y agoPoint. I should qualify that to "non-terminating infinite scroll." E.g. DDG is likely neither hoping nor expecting their users to infinitely scroll through search results all day, without clicking anything. Also, where does DDG have infinite scroll? I just checked (it's my default) and Firefox on Android shows a "More Results" footer button.
- jraph 5y agoOh, you are right, it's not actually infinite scroll, you have to click on "More Results" so Duck Duck Go loads more results in the page! My mistake. But yes, even if they did so, this is the important bit: > DDG is likely neither hoping nor expecting their users to infinitely scroll through search results all day, without clicking anything.
- throwawayboise 5y agoWho looks past the first half-dozen search results. I almost never do.