God help me, if DU ever goes to an "infinite scrolling" format I will burn the place to the ground.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Yahoo Mail switched to this. So did Facebook, Google Images, and a lot of search type database websites.

It's horrible. Truly horrible.

Instead of having things set up in neat little pages where you know exactly where your content is located, and you are free to go back and forth from it, if you click on an item in a "infinite scroll" and then click back, it almost inevitably will return you to the very first result and you will have to start searching for the spot you left off on. Which if you are dealing with dozens of results that would otherwise be relegated to a set page, it becomes very annoying and time consuming.

That and it will inevitably crash your browser eventually. Without fail. If you scroll down too far, you'll overload the computer and freeze out.

Who designed such a cluster fuck? Why did they design such a cluster fuck? Is it some sort of way to appeal to tablet users? Do tablet users even prefer infinite scrolling, or do they prefer pagination as well?

Or is it some wicked corpofacist conspiracy to mess with our heads? I don't know. All I know is that infinite scrolling sucks and has killed many a good webpage for me.

[NV Whino]

1. I agree

It sucks.

[Xyzse]

2. I can only agree

I don't go to yahoo much any more because of it.

I tend to prefer pagination, but they think it is faster and it just scrolls down.

It makes it so much harder to find things as well, particularly when you're trying to figure out things in a chronological context.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Another vote against it.

[Chan790]

4. I'm the only one who loves it?

I'm surprised.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Yes, you are.

Corporate facist asshole.

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[Chan790]

8. you forgot propagandist. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. You know, Hitler had internet scrolling he made the Jews use. nt

[Goalie49009]

6. Heres a song for you

to fit the mood

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. we don't need no water -

[Make7]

10. Google Images with results organized by page:

https://www.google.com/imghp?sout=1

(At least that works for me in FireFox - you can also hit the End key to go to the bottom of a normal results page and click on the Switch to basic version link.)

I have a couple Yahoo Mail accounts I don't use very often, but last weekend I was deleting some stuff from one and it was still organized in pages - although I don't think I updated to their latest mail version. Maybe later I'll test out the latest version in one of my other accounts and see what is going on.

[lastlib]

11. I'll bring the matches and gasoline....

...and marshmallows!

[PoliticAverse]

12. It seems to be a fad that several sites have jumped on. It's very annoying. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. I just worry it will be one of those things that is shoved down our throats, like it or not.

And we'll just have to deal with it.

I don't know. The tech world sometimes seems to work on that philosophy.

[Call Me Wesley]

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