My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
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My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
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Re: My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll
#2Sometimes infinite scroll wins. But usually it's too janky to get me hooked.
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#3It’s honestly so bad. No matter how hard I try, I find myself re-downloading TikTok or Reddit (Apollo) every month and then wasting away all my free time for a week or two before re-deleting them out of disgust. I truly don’t know what the solution is. I would just get rid of my smartphone if life wasn’t quite inconvenient without it.
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#4I don't use any product with infinite scroll. If it's not paginated or single-paged, it's a clear sign they regard their users' time as worthless.
Why would you interact with a company that believes that?
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#5Is there an extension out there that will paginate infinite scrolls?
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#6A very hacky solution that I've found to combat TikTok's infinite feed is to scroll up instead. I skip to the 20-th video in the feed, watch each video, and then exit once I'm done with the 20. Hitting the top gives you an off-ramp to get out of the app.
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#7I don't use any product with infinite scroll. If it's not paginated or single-paged, it's a clear sign they regard their users' time as worthless. Why would you interact with a company that believes that?
An exception: I find Duck Duck Go's infinite scroll quite pleasant, and find paginated results quite cumbersome.
Elsewhere it's just annoying. Especially when a misclick makes you lose the position. Dilbert's website is a good example of this. For Reddit or Twitter I don't know, I read them using libreddit and nitter when I occasionally land on them from a link or a search result. TikTok and Facebook I have never tried.
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#9Small request. If you are a developer and you are forced to implement infinite scroll and you can't quit your job, at least make sure the back button works.
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#10This is also my struggle. I've come up with a million ways to cope, but it makes me sad to think of the wasted potential: all the projects I never started, hobbies I never picked up, courses I never finished, books I never read