Convince me that infinite scrolling is worse than pages

[anon94872061]

I want to skip to the end to see the latest post, but infinite scrolling makes that a pain.

Left click and hold the slider on the right side. Drag to bottom and release.

[Baelrún-emerald-dream (Baelrún)]

I don’t want “ infinite scrolling sucks ”,

I just don’t like it and probably never will. Change isn’t always positive or necessary…

[Ameliannex-sargeras]

Can’t do that on mobile.

[Swiftraven-moon-guard (Swiftraven)]

when i’m scrolling up trying to find a post it spazzes out and shoots to the top while the bar on the side claims its still in the middle of the thread. super annoying

[Sephrinx-moon-guard]

Can’t be done because it’s awful lmao

[anon94872061]

We aren’t living in the 90s Geocities website of designing 101 Blizzard.
Get with the time.
Monitors are getting bigger.
Widescreen and resolution are getting higher.
And now, you guys are going back to 90s website designing.

Ive designed websites for maybe 15 years now and I never allow my sites to be THAT wide.
I doubt many people are going to want to read sentence as wide as my 27 in monitors are. After a certain width, it just gets harder to keep track of it line to line.

about 1200 pixels wide is generally the maximum width MOST text filled webpages should be.
If I built my pages to suit your needs, 1000 other readers would be tossing fits that its too wide.

From my years of experience the sweet spot for MOST text filled pages is 800 - 1200 pixels in width, which this forum seems to be in there somewhere.

Frankly I didnt even think anyone used their browser window full width on a wide screen monitor in the sizes we have today.
I adjust my browser window to about that 1200 pixel width and thats where it is when Im browsing, so the dead space on the sides is my desktop, not empty browser.

[anon94872061]

Can’t do that on mobile.

yeah…actually you can.
There is that blue box at the bottom of the page on my phone when looking at a thread.
Tap the box and another box comes up and has the slider on the right.

[Tiapriestess-whisperwind (Tiapriestess)]

See, and right now my CPU usage for chrome is 0.3% and my memory usage is ~700MB (which is consistent with what I checked on the first day of this thread in a 500+ post thread, leading me to believe thread size has very little if any impact). Perhaps they messed something up for the Mac/iOS platform, but given my numbers it’s clearly not simply a matter of infinite scrolling resulting in ridiculous numbers.

Except I watched the RAM increase as the thread scrolled. I could see the numbers increasing as the scroll continued. Even with almost no videos embedded into the thread, I managed to tally 10 GB of RAM taken just from that one page. The reason for the RAM increase is pretty obvious - it isn’t the text of the thread. That’s minimal. A 4500 post thread’s text would amount to a few dozen MB at most.

It’s the fonts, page background (which has to be maintained for a full 4500 posts, so a LOT of RAM from that alone), CSS, and thread UI elements. Remember, each time a new post is scrolled to, the UI elements are duplicated.

All of that adds up.

[anon94872061]

With this thread open Chrome is using 6.8% of my ram (16gb)
When I closed just this website out, it went down to 5.6% usage for Chrome.
Honestly, I dont think its using THAT much memory by todays standards.

[Klowdywilde-area-52 (Klowdywilde)]

The most annoying part is scrolling up on a phone, also typing while the phone is vertical. I scroll up a little bit and it goes blank and starts loading, then, suddenly, I’m at the top, 100 posts from where I was.

I was hoping they were going to go with the forums like ESO, and GW2. Easy to use, more customizable on their part, nicer looking.

[Eninya-lightbringer (Eninya)]

Because it’s functionally messy. Scrolling down or up causes it to just reel and roll more when all I want is the top or bottom of the page for organizations’ sake.

Also, this eats more memory. Tumblr uses this system, and now Reddit these days. It’s very annoying because it ends up being more disorganized in the long run.