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georgemcbay on Feb 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?

I wish to join your infinite scroll haters club.

To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum's "Ian Malcolm" in Jurassic Park:

"Yeah, but your front-end developers were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

I personally find infinite scroll to be far worse than cleanly paginated pages in every regard. YMMV, I guess.

dubfan on Feb 27, 2014 | [–]

Every time I've witnessed infinite scroll being implemented into a project I've been involved with, the decision was not made by the developers.

_greim_ on Feb 28, 2014 | [–]

The hangup with pagination is even if it can be done well, most people associate it with a full page reload, often very slow, often because of ads.

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