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I have a suggestion for a hack that would make life a little more pleasant for those who do not mind running Javascript while not affecting those who want to us
by SudarshanP 15y ago
I have a suggestion for a hack that would make life a little more pleasant for those who do not mind running Javascript while not affecting those who want to use the site as is. The script can be implemented by the community and hosted on Git. PG can just include the script in the arc code with just a "one line change".
The JS will just fetch the initial n pages and allow easy navigation using the more button. It will be visually very similar to what we have now. If the community cares it can become much more richer in functionality.
If PG refuses, at least there r enough HN users who are annoyed by this bug that we can create a Chrome plugin for HN that fixes this. I can probably write something like this myself. But probably the community can first formulate excatly what the plugin should/should not do. Does such a plugin already exist? Is it a bad idea to solve it this way? Would the additional burden on the servers be too high to be worth it?
- eneveu 15y agoAs I understand it, pagination is there for performance reasons: the server does not compute the rest of the page until needed. Adding a script that pre-fetches all pages would defeat this.