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>You could be reading a post, it randomly refreshes, and you will never find that post again due to the search being unusable.

I experience this with every platform that utilizes infinite scroll. Infinite scroll seems deliberately unsearchable in favor of slot machine style "who knows what's next" scrolling. Pretty degenerate.

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I almost never have this problem with Twitter. But for the most part, yeah.

That's weird. Twitter has been the worst offender. If you let a page sit for a seemingly random period and come back, the page will reload and leave you back at the top. Doesn't happen to you?

Maybe once every 2-3 weeks but almost never. Tumblr it was almost every time.

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