I've never been a big proponent of infinite scrolling even when it was the approach du jour in the early Rails/web 2.0 halcyon days. But it can work, it's just

I've never been a big proponent of infinite scrolling even when it was the approach du jour in the early Rails/web 2.0 halcyon days. But it can work, it's just that nobody has bothered to tinker with the concept very much. It's either/or when it comes to infinite scrolling and click pagination. The big issues for me are: - it's never really infinite, it's some finite list that will end at a surprising time. There's rarely any context for how much is ahead of you and behind you. Some sites now will give you little contextual hints (ASOS.com for an example) but often it's opaque. - leaving all of your previous items on the page. So I'm near the bottom of the list but I have a 4000vh list ahead Sites that paginate without engagement outside of scroll make the most sense to me, where you get a window of several pages and indication of where you are. [1 2 3] scroll down, [2 3 4]