> even a poorly implemented autoscroll is an order of magnitude improvement over the UX experience it replaces. I completely disagree. The best possible implem

> even a poorly implemented autoscroll is an order of magnitude improvement over the UX experience it replaces. I completely disagree. The best possible implementation of infinite scroll is better than pagination, but most infinite scroll implementations are worse to me than pagination. First of all, the main problem I have with multi-page web sites is not that I have to click a "next" button. That's such a minor inconvenience that it doesn't even register. The main annoyance with arbitrary pagination is that you can't easily search the page. Infinite scroll helps with that, but simply having a single page per chunk of related data (i.e. one page for a blog post) works better. Secondly, with pagination, or with an ordinary non-infinite single page layout, I can close my browser tab and reopen it, restart my computer, reload the page, whatever, and when I come back, it will be scrolled right there in the same place. I have never seen an infinite scroll implementation that could do that. Finally, bad implementations of infinite scroll just let the page grow and grow, consuming resources without end. Especially on sites that have a lot of images, this creates a practical limit to how far you can scroll before the site becomes unusable. Even if the site offers an multi-page alternative layout, you then have to find your place again at that time.