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Discussion on: Why I hate Infinite Scrolling

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Gregg Bond • Edited

Infinite scrolling works really well for Reddit and Google Search results. Not much more.

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TMcSquared

DuckDuckGo utilizes it as well...so do a lot of other search engines.

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Ben Mackie

Not true. Often overlooked are static data tables. With robust searching, sorting and filtering, infinite scroll can be implemented properly. Pagination is an imposed filter, and page numbers are completely arbitrary. And let's stop calling everything that scrolls, infinite scrolling. Only dynamic user-created content is infinite.