alt Hacker News> a feature that simply makes your product easier to use
Except it doesn't. You lose context and are now drowning in an endless morass of lazy-loaded blocks and widgets, all hiding under invisible elements. Nothing has a permanent URL, so there is zero accountably if the user was shown something that they need to reference - unless it benefits the platform. And of course, it will eventually all force reload when the page complexity exhausts the available memory, or at least when it becomes too exhausted to reliably serve ads.
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You can do permanent urls with infinite scrolling. Nothing that prevents you from putting the page number in the url
says you
> now drowning in an endless morass of lazy-loaded blocks and widgets
> so there is zero accountably if the user was shown something that they need to reference
You just sound angry...
god I hate infinite scrolling so much
you can't jump to the specific place on the website, you can't remember where something has been to have a map in mind, you can't go to "about" section or some sort of site settings