Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling

chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

i personally have pushed back on every “infinite scrolling” feature request from product designers. first, you think you need it; you don’t. second, you think it’s just so nifty! it isn’t. oh it your content is dynamically generated? what was wrong with Reddit’s pager that launched that site into popularity?

it’s unnecessary complexity that hides information from the user, makes API calls (which are, spoilers, paginated) more complicated, can cause the obvious memory/resource consumption issues, and just generally disempowers the user. which i guess on a social media app is the point. but totally counter to the goals of a fleet management system lol

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