ok after that post about the social consequences of infinite scrolling, here's another plea

dear programmers/web designers

just make fucking pages. please. i'm begging you. do it so i can find my goddamn place. give me a fuckin landmark here.

also have mercy on people who might be running it on older hardware and maybe don't want to deal with their computer groaning under the weight of a fuckshit mountain of loaded posts

@wigglytuffitout I actually really like infinite scrolling, so here are some things that make it good:

add landmarks in your URL, as you pass a section, so reloading the page will get you to (roughly) the same position

only load what is in view (+ a bit of buffer on both sides). The rest of your scroll elements can be replaced with empty divs to fill the scroll height while keeping performance up

@f0x @wigglytuffitout you can't ctrl+f if it unloads everything you're not looking at 😬

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@candle @wigglytuffitout yeah but you can't do that when it's on a different page either

@f0x @candle @wigglytuffitout if the divs still have the text, then you can definitely search.

but tbh, just write things that work in plain HTML, make the rest opt-in.

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