Why not to use infinite scroll on your website
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Why not to use infinite scroll on your website
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Re: Why not to use infinite scroll on your website
#2These are for sure good reasons to not use infinite scroll. But I think this is more like an implementation problem than a problem with infinite scroll itself.
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#4If you do use page numbering and next-links, please make the link to the next page amply big. Really big please, you don't have much to lose.
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#5I personally despise infinite scroll, at least on mobile sites, as it limits:
1. My ability to orient myself in the content. 2. My ability to control my consumption of the content (e.g., jump back to top, jump to end, jump to rough internal location).
Some sites have added navigation buttons or tool bars, but, to be useful, they must always be visible, so they take up valuable space that should be used for content. Depending upon implementation, they can also be distracting.
There are certainly ways that navigation options could be restored while still not significantly interfering with content, of course. If decent feedback of current location were also provided, then infinite scroll could be OK.
Most content breaks down pretty naturally into some smaller increments, though (pages, chapters, sections, topics, days -- whatever), so I think it typically makes more sense to present it in that way.
Just because we can do infinite scroll, doesn't mean we should.
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#68) isn't absolutely true:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.it/2014/02/infinite-s...
Re: Why not to use infinite scroll on your website
#7This would have been better if it infinitely scrolled.
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#8As always it's never that simple.
Infinite scroll is great for browsing images. That's whats it's always been good for.
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#9I totaly agree. It is really great, when you need to click on link in the footer of the page, that keep running out.
Re: Why not to use infinite scroll on your website
#10If you do use page numbering and next-links, please make the link to the next page amply big. Really big please, you don't have much to lose.
All the time I see people complaining about usage of HTML tables vs. pure CSS, and yet the one thing that drives me absolutely insane is a 4 point smaller than the rest "prev 1..3,4,5..10 next" navigation control at the bottom of a page. Always a treat to use on mobile too :)