Re:Show HN: More HN
by wolfgang42 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:59AM
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The ‘More’ link is apparently required due to server load; dang has stated that he’d like to get rid of it as soon as he can fix the underlying performance problems: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Re:Show HN: More HN
by gremlinsinc on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @07:10AM
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why not autoload it on scroll... like after you get past 75% or something? Many sites have never-ending scrollers, FB as an example and you'd think as big as YC is they could afford someone who can figure out endless scrolling.
Re:Show HN: More HN
by wolfgang42 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:10PM
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Endless scrolling was specifically rejected [1], and given how vociferous the HN community can be about such things I don’t blame them.
Also, comments can shift from page to page as their ranking changes, so a naïve implementation would end up with duplicates (for comments that fell down past the page boundary before the next page loaded) and missing items (for comments that rose up), and a more sophisticated implementation probably wouldn’t be worth the effort for something they want to get rid of.