Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by capableweb on Friday May 15, 2020 @07:52AM (#23191080)

As with many things in "modern" web development, "endless-scroll" is not really endless (as nothing is endless). It's a technique similar to how Facebook, Twitter and others continue to automatically load content when you reach the bottom, giving the impression of "endless" content. Of course, even Facebook and Twitter would eventually run out of content to show, but somehow that pattern got the name "endless scroll".

See also: isomorphic, real-time, serverless and countless others examples of poorly named concepts in web development.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by runeb on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:24AM (#23192526)

I know the feature they alluded to, thanks for the explanation. Comments on a thread are finite at any moment in time though, you wouldn't find "related content" as you were scrolling a specific thread page on HN. That was my point.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by Rerarom on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:04AM (#23192292)

I was very surprised when I first found out FB would run out content. I had assumed that it would just go further back in time, even if the feed was not strictly chronological.

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