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Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by baddox on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:40PM (#20943867)
My favorite example I discovered recently is the Coinbase prices page. You can’t get to the links in the footer (or their big “enter your email to learn more” CTA which I’m sure their marketing team works hard on) because it keeps loading new pages when you scroll to the bottom of the page. Presumably they will eventually run out of pages and you’ll be able to see the footer.

https://www.coinbase.com/price

Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by acdanger on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @03:59PM (#20944047)
I've come across dozens examples of this issue. It's absurd these features make it into production.
Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by zubnix on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:01PM (#20944660)
It stops at 1972. I thank my flywheel scroll button for that.
Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by clairity on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:58PM (#20944623)
other issues aside, isn't not being able to reach the footer on infinite scrolling pages solved with a sticky footer?

it can even be sticky at 2X or 3X the screen hieght so that it doesn't get in the way of the freshest/most important content near the top of the (very long) page.

Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by Groxx on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:14PM (#20944789)
theoretically yes. effectively anyway.

in practice, I don't think I've ever seen a sticky footer that didn't flake out somewhere. it's always broken weird screen sizes, or mobile, or one browser, or after a browser update. or it hides content because someone forgot to add padding. or it jumps around because they're using absolute position for some insane reason.

Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by lol768 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:00PM (#20944653)
Out of curiousity, I did persist and scroll all the way to the buttom. It took a few minutes - 1972 separate cryptocurrencies can appear in that table
Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by nirui on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:50PM (#20947762)
Haha. I think it's one reason why I have No Script installed on my browser -- To protect me against poorly designed websites (to a degree at least).

Infinite Scrolling is not bad, but you have to design the page for it instead of jamming the feature in later. Otherwise, it hurts.

Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by terragon on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:10AM (#20961010)
That's absurd! Everyone knows you're supposed to open up Developer Tools, then throttle network to 2G and then scroll, if you want to see the footer.

I thought this was common knowledge, guys. /s

Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by markdown on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @05:13PM (#20944777)
A tax on fast internet, lol. I have no problem getting to the footer links on first scroll. I then get around five seconds to study the links before it disappears and I have to scroll for another five second view.
Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by 3xblah on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:04PM (#20945238)
What happens if you turn off Javascript for this website in the browser, or use a client that does not interpret Javascript?
Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling by spookthesunset on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:53PM (#20945677)
Initiate scroll can’t work without javascript enabled....