Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company
by fastbeef on Friday October 20, 2017 @04:10AM
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Funny thing about inifi-scrolling is that it's designed to save bandwidth, but I'd wager that most of the time the extra JS packages are bigger than the content actually being "saved"
Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company
by Illotus on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:31AM
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Sorta, it does save bandwitdth, but more importantly it is used to keep users on your site longer by removing the decision point of browsing to the next page. Though for the best effect you need to do it background so that user never really realises that the feed/list never really ends.
Re:What you should know as a founder of a software company
by marcosdumay on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:11AM
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Whatever you do, just, please, add a link for the next page at the end of your results. You can move it later with JS once you downloaded more results, but make sure the link is there.
I'm quite tired of not being able to use sites on slow connections.
HN/Wiki/Reddit don't: break the back button, take forever to load 1000 JS/CSS files, have broken "infini-scrolling", or even break when JS is disabled (well, reddit kinda does now).
Compare that to the majority of over-engineered SPA-style webpages that employed many, many front-end engineers and UX designers, and Wikipedia, Reddit, HN as well as old-school Gmail and FB start looking amazing.
Man oh man do I miss old Gmail... that was a great interface. I exclusively use FB on mobile, no-js mode.
Web brutalism should be the new hotness.