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I tried reading the footer to get the contact information for on https://grumpy.website but it keeps doom-scrolling and only visible for a fraction of a second. What an irony.

I dream of a day when we go back to pagination. No, not just pagination numbers on the bottom of the page to flip through pages, but also the URL should reflect that and be able to share the 7th page with someone using a link.

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I hate it when people share page numbers like that with me, because many sites have things that are either "ranked" somehow, or in reverse-chronological order, which means that the contents of page 3 are constantly changing.

Still remember trying to browse fonts on Google Fonts and my browser crashing as I scrolled too far. Shame on me for wanting to look at too many! At the very least they need a way to unload the earlier entries and reclaim resources.

For some experiences, content needs to be updated in page 1 (google is a good example). How would you then share page 7? that requirement could only be met if content was static (no updates) or the ordering of results was old to new. Am I missing something?

That's true. Pagination makes sense when it is static and not chronological, thanks for pointing that out. But, the problem still exists that I cannot get to the footer where there seems to be some contact information of the author :-)

You're right, the behaviour of the footer clearly creates a major usability issue. I personally dislike infinite scrolling with a passion. I can't see any big advantages and there are a lot of cons. I keep my hopes high that one day I will see it die... like Adobe Flash :)

The classical solution is to have a "content before ID_OF_LAST_ITEM_ON_PREVIOUS_PAGE" url, though there isn't really a way to do that and also display page numbers on the bottom.

Many thanks for the insight. I am now going on a rabbit hole to discover what that solution implies, how it works, etc. :)

See https://grumpy.website/post/0Q8s2Zc3p

You can just turn the site over with the button on the top, and all the information will stay fixed (:

You can also just go to any post, there will be no scrolling, too

Or, if you have javascript off, you get no pagination and no scroll, making it look like there are only 6ish items

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