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infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-)

I agree with the problem of finding something again in a long, cryptically ordered list of several hundreds or thousands of items. Not sure a paginated facebook feed would solve that issue though

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I mean limited in terms of quantity posted per day; my understanding of Facebook's system is that across all of my friends (or maybe even friends of friends?) there's a lot of stuff posted, and Facebook only picks a subset of to actually show me. I don't know how they decide which things appear in my newsfeed and I don't know what order they're in.

Compared to Instagram where I see every single thing that someone I follow posts (might be because I follow so few people on it). If I want to go back and see one of the posts again, I scroll back in time and eventually find it.

For losing posts on Facebook I’m not talking about trying to find something from a month ago, I’m talking about things that I swear I saw yesterday and now I can’t find it.

I often loose things I saw a minute ago by a misclick on a group page or something like that, and when I come back to the feed it’s just gone.

Like, I follow some newspapers on fb, an often they only show up once per day, reload the feed and it’s vanished.

> infinite scrolling of a limited set of items wouldn't be very true to the name ;-)

This is actually what facebook does when you're offline. When it runs out of content to show, it cycles round and shows you the same content again.

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