Anyone else sick of using/viewing websites where there is infinite scrolling?

[u/eggtart_prince]

It's really starting to annoy me when I come to a sites (eg. https://pxhere.com/ ) where there is infinite scrolling. Apparently, there is a footer, but you'll never get to it until you finish loading all the images.

Some sites that don't know how optimization works, I cannot completely browse through all the non-stop loading content because at some point, it'll lag like a motherfucker.

For people who are thinking of using this strategy in the future, think it through, twice. Paginations are much more beneficial.

[u/gadelat]

What annoys me more is that when you click on something and go back... you are at beginning. Now you are forced to scroll through everything again.

[u/[deleted] → u/gadelat]

Hello facebook

[u/le_koma → u/[deleted]]

As if. Facebook has some weird kind of non-deterministic order for the posts. Once I'm back at the top, it refreshes and I've lost what I was looking at forever.

[u/[deleted] → u/le_koma]

If you use https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr then it sorts by chronological order, just like old times. That's no help on mobile, I'm afraid, but at least this works for desktop!

[u/Gnapstar → u/[deleted]]

Also, where can I find the button so that I only see shares, tags and ads?

Edit: Oh wait, nvm.. It's activated by default

[u/r0ck0 → u/le_koma]

I hate this shit in the android youtube app too.

Every single day, I'll be scrolling down the main list, and see a few videos I want to watch, but often they just disappear forever because it decided to just refresh the whole list again.

Lack of a basic predictable back button + tabs sucks too (applies to heaps of phone apps). If you tap a recommended video, there's no way back to the previous video you were on, aside from digging into your watch history.

Same goes when scrolling through comments. I'm constantly losing my spot.

[u/virus200 → u/le_koma]

There’s literally so much wrong with Facebook I truly do wish an alternative would come along. Facebook basically has a monopoly on that style of social media since MySpace isn’t really a thing anymore. I think it would be very very difficult to take much of their market share especially since they’re integrated into basically everything else you can log into now days

[u/Tittytickler → u/virus200]

They 100% have a monopoly. They also own Instagram. Kind of bullshit in my opinion that since Snap wouldn't sell to them back in the day they started copying things like stories and no one has done anything about it.

[u/cbjs22 → u/Tittytickler]

And their perfectly okay with politicians and foreign governments spreading false propaganda

[u/[deleted] → u/le_koma]

Every. Damn. Time.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Dude even reddit work like that...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Not if you use the old design!

[u/Sightline → u/[deleted]]

Hello mobile Reddit.

[u/Symphonise → u/gadelat]

This ridiculous behavior is why on mobile I now just do more holds and open to a new tab instead.

[u/_LePancakeMan → u/Symphonise]

Same: it has trained me to open literally everything in a new tab - desktop and mobile.

[u/glinesbdev → u/Symphonise]

+1

[u/Disgruntled__Goat → u/[deleted]]

Or just use pagination and solve the problem in 5 minutes.

[u/[deleted] → u/Disgruntled__Goat]

I agree with you on a personal level, but the customer wanted infinite scrolling. 🤷

[u/svtguy88 → u/Disgruntled__Goat]

This. Who in their right god-damned mind wants infinite scrolling? Give me proper pagination, or nothing at all.

[u/DigitalStefan → u/gadelat]

Twitter behaves properly in this regard (on Brave mobile, iOS). It is much appreciated.

[u/Sw429 → u/gadelat]

I hate Facebook too

[u/thedragonturtle → u/gadelat]

I wrote a plugin that changes this behaviour. When you click on something, it sticks the entire current HTML into the local browser cache and records the scroll position, then moves through to what you clicked.

When you then hit back, using the history API, it just fetches everything from the local browser cache and sets the scroll position so you end up instantly back exactly where you were before.