Comment on Why does Lemmy (and reddit) show posts from previous page on next page?
jet@hackertalks.com 9 months agoIt’s a valid design choice. But it is to keep the programming simple. One might characterize that kind of choice as lazy. Especially in terms of user interface. But I’m not beating up on Lemmy. I’m just explaining to the original poster the trade-offs that people make.
It’s not necessarily lazy. If I want to go back to a particular post I saw on page 1 when I’m on page 2, but it was knocked off the front page, how would I find it? It’s no longer on page 1, so back would miss it. I’d have to go to 1 and then back again to 2 to find a post that moved.
It gets even more complicated when the algorithm also changes post order.
Sometimes simple with minor inconvenience is the best option.
In an endlessly scrolling implementation, you’d just scroll up.
Without endless scrolling, it could behave as follows:
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
one man’s lazy is another man’s efficient and pragmatic