Pagination Is Dead
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Pagination Is Dead
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#2I like pagination because it provides stop points to the time sink. Infinite scrolling works too well for sucking people's attention indefinitely.
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#3Infinite scrolls are some time exhausting, because there is never an end ...
Pagination is good because you know how many pages do you have ...
Maybe what is needed is a very good search engine!
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#4Since Google introduced infinite scrolling on mobile, I've switched to Bing (which still has pagination), and I have to say...
I do not miss Google Search at all!
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#5I like pagination because it provides stop points to the time sink. Infinite scrolling works too well for sucking people's attention indefinitely.
The reason you don't like infinite scroll is the exact reason website owners love it.
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#6The last point is a really good one.
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#7Infinite scrolls are some time exhausting, because there is never an end ... Pagination is good because you know how many pages do you have ... Maybe what is needed is a very good search engine!
A nice poetry piece this one is! ^
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#8From a technical perspective, in many cases getting the total count required for formal pagination is actually extremely tricky. Even in postgres, the count operation on an indexed table is extremely slow. In cases where the query is doing something more complicated than hitting an RDBMS, getting the total count could be substantially more complicated.
Also, I hate pagination in almost every case.
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#9From a technical perspective, in many cases getting the total count required for formal pagination is actually extremely tricky. Even in postgres, the count operation on an indexed table is extremely slow. In cases where the query is doing something more complicated than hitting an RDBMS, getting the total count could be substantially more complicated. Also, I hate pagination in almost every case.
Pagination doesn’t require a total page count to still be useful. You might remember Google’s UI in its first 10 years or so, which had pagination but not a total page count (if the number of pages exceeded 10 or so). You can use a ellipsis or a word like “many” and people will easily understand.
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#10Infinite scroll is frustrating on higher latency connections, which I have all the time being here in Australia.
Particularly when you want to skip towards the end of the list. YouTube has recently changed all their playlists etc to infinite scroll and it takes FOREVER to scroll 5 pages down to get to the bottom of the list. And they don't have a UI to reverse the list order or jump ahead.
They did recently add a list reverse to some places but it's still missing in others. Drives me bonkers :(
Of course it's not necessarily purely the fault of infinite scroll, there are potentially ways to combine them. But the basic pattern many places implement is painful for this latency and no skip-ahead combination.