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December 18, 2019
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Feature request: Please add continuous/infinite scrolling

  • December 18, 2019
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Hi,

 

Please consider adding continious/infinite scrolling to the post overview pages.

This page loading behaviour works so mutch faster then browsing page by page.

https://infinite-scroll.com/

 

Thanks

 

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 27, 2019

Been there, done that. infinite scrolling was a catastrophe on the overview page because there was no possible way to reach the footer links.  Sorry but this idea won't fly here.  There are too many problems with it.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
NB, colourmanagement
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 2, 2020

Hi all

 

yeah, I was one of those who had trouble with infinite scrolling and seeing footer links, the long scrolling pages jumped and flickered and clicking on the foooter was like a game of wack-a-mole . 

 

Happy New Decade everyone

 

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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Just Shoot Me
Legend
December 19, 2019

OP is talking about the Overview page of the particular forum, NOT the actual posts.

 

So if you go back to this forum, Com Feedback you can scroll through all the posts, discussions.

 

But IMHO that is a bad idea. You would then need to go to the last post, discussion to actually see the bottom of the page.

That could be Thousands and Thousands of posts and could take DAYS to get to the end in some forums.

 

What needs to happen, as asked for from Day ONE, is to Drop the first 2 lines of the post under the topic title, remove the waisted white spaces, and add more topics, posts, discussions, to each individual page layout.

 

But it has been made very clear by the people that run this place THAT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

 

They know what is best you everyone will just have to live with it, or NOT.

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2019

We had that and there were many requests for pagination instead.  Long threads were a nightmare to get to the last post.

What we really need is more posts to show on each page.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2019

What we need is a go to last post button.

John Waller
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2019

From memory, that was requested but proved to be too hard.

 

Pagination was the next best option.