Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse
by jrochkind1 on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:21PM
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You know what just occured to me -- Slack is effectively 'inifinite scroll' too (no pagination), of quite a bitof content sometimes... and I don't think people complain much about this aspect of Slack. Wonder how they managed to get it right.
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Because Slack is a chat system and you typically just care about the most recent messages (which are always displayed). I find scrolling back in Slack to actually be very irritating, when I have to do it. It's slow and the view jumps around whenever the next page loads in. (The UX on the search functionality is also fairly lacking.)
Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse
by codinghorror on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @06:03PM
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Yeah, people basically don't care at all about chat history. Chat is short-term memory; forgetting is a feature.
Re:Jeff Atwood on growing Discourse
by theparanoid on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @04:36PM
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They add a nice ("109 comments since April 30th") link to click at the top of the chat window that does exactly what it says. Also there's a custom search box so ctrl+F isn't as broken.