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
@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.