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How are you going to keep your place if the order changes anyway? What is your place if the order has changed? If the order changes, all bets are off regardles
by nkrisc 3mo ago
How are you going to keep your place if the order changes anyway? What is your place if the order has changed?
If the order changes, all bets are off regardless of pagination or infinite scroll.
- xigoi 3mo agoWhen asked to load more items, simply take the entire list (which may have changed) and remove the items already shown on the screen.
- tmtvl 3mo agoHow does that differ from 'when asked to load more items, simply take the entire list (which may have changed) and remove the items already shown on previous pages'?
- xigoi 3mo agoThe fact that, in general, you don’t know what was on the previous pages, if anything. The user may just randomly decide to open page 3 without having visited the previous two pages. Or they clicked “next” after having page 2 open on their computer for several days and meanwhile they used your website on a different device.
- inigyou 3mo agoIf implementing this idea, it wouldn't just be page 3 any more, it would be page numbered 3 excluding IDs 75833,6857362,2737,... Reddit page links include both the number of the first item on the page (only cosmetic) and the last item on the previous page (which actually determines what is displayed).
- nkrisc 3mo agoThat’s not “keeping your place” in an ordered list if the order has changed between the requests for pages 3 and 4.