@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What about “Click to Load”?

@prologic@twtxt.net What’s that?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org not what you want. Instead of an infinite scrolling, it will render until a point, then give you a link to load the next batch. Rinse and repeat.

DuckDuckGo’s mobile view does this for example

Ah, thanks, @bender@twtxt.net! Yeah, that combines the disadvantages of both approaches and successfully throws away the advantages. I actually know at least two webshops with that terrible UI.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org So you neither like “Click to Load” nor “Infinite Scroll” eh? I mean I sort of get it, infinite scroll is kind of annoying as you never really know wtf is going on. Click to Load misses out on “how many pages”, “what page you’re on”, etc. But is it really that bad? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Right, I hate it. I’d stick to regular pagination and page sizes that are reasonable large. But if you think another approach is better, go for it. It’s your sofware after all.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Heh 😀 This is why we’ve always implemented features that have differing opinions as either user options, configuration or feature gated 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net I was going to say, it could be a setting. I prefer infinite scrolling, but I know there is a strong movement against it. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net i’m thinking it’s probably worth to try and implement both features as use for configurable preferences just so that we can see what it’s like. 🤣 The default, of course would be the regular pagination that exists now.