Comments on: Boing Boing... FOREVER

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:06:00 +0000

I’m having some difficulty fixing this. It looks like it works if you’re logged out, but not if you’re logged in. Driving me mad!

By: bobrk

bobrk — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:22:00 +0000

Still seems broken to me.

By: Michael Pearce

Michael Pearce — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:08:00 +0000

I reached the end of the page. Now what?

By: bobtwells

bobtwells — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:56:00 +0000

Nooooo! The end of page was my reminder to get back to work, now nothing will get done!

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:14:00 +0000

Paginated URLs such as http://boingboing.net/page/2 still work. I’ll look into history.js. Thanks for the recommendations.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:18:00 +0000

From my perspective, nothing.
Running scripts can break things.
Not running them can mean that something doesn’t work for you, nor against you, until you make it.
I whitelist every trusted domain that gives me a functionality I desire, but I feel no compunction for not running scripts that don’t benefit me.

By: hostile_17

hostile_17 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:24:00 +0000

Top job… really like the loading of more content.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:29:00 +0000

The half artwork manages to be disturbing and adorable at the same time.

By: Keith Anselm

Keith Anselm — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:35:00 +0000

That will destroy my RAM to get far back. Will you implement a page view as well?

By: cookie_b

cookie_b — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:07:00 +0000

If you click out to read a linked article then hit back, it doesn’t go back to the same depth in the page as the article you clicked out from, it goes to the top of the page and you have to scroll down to where you were. Inconvenient, and if it’s been a day or two and you’re starting at the oldest unread, it can take a long time to get back there.

And if you’re going to do this (endless going down) then you might as well implement the corollary (endless going up): when you get to the top, pull down to get anything new that’s shown up in the meantime, like on iOS (“Pull to refresh”).

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:40:00 +0000

What else does that break?

By: spool32

spool32 — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 05:20:00 +0000

Thank you very much for this. I’d given up on reading BoingBoing because the page seemed to freeze Chrome for 20s or so. Glad to see the site is faster now!

By: labargmd

labargmd — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:12:00 +0000

So glad that ..oing.net/page/n/ still works! That’s the way to catch up on some days of missed bB on a tablet that doesn’t have enough RAM! Thanks for all you do, boingers!

By: zachstronaut

zachstronaut — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:47:00 +0000

I think infinite scroll works well on mobile, but otherwise is a poisonous UX anti-pattern.

Now I lose my spot if I reload the page.

If ajax loading fails for some reason, such as a network timeout, I’m probably just screwed and have to reload and then scroll down a half dozen times to get back to where I was… there’s no direct link anymore.

And what if there’s an article I want to find, and I can’t quite remember what it was, but I know I saw it a few days ago. No longer can I skip ahead quickly several pages. I have to scroll and wait for things to load. And before I could simply go up and change page 2 to be page 5 in the URL to skip ahead several pages at once.

I really don’t like it. And I certainly don’t understand why infinite scroll isn’t implemented in conjunction with the HTML5 history API (or with the history.js shim) so that page URLs are maintained to fix the majority of the above listed problems.

Sorry to be so negative, but bad UX is a pet peeve.

tl;dr I love boingboing. Please integrate page URLs via history.js into your infinite scroll implementation for maximum win. Or just go back to regular pagination.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:27:00 +0000

“things” can be really “annoying”. I agree.

Might I suggest you open links into new tabs? Also, maybe some proofreading would help your suggestions gain traction?

By: Ipo

Ipo — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:58:00 +0000

NoScript.
Don’t whitelist “googleapis.com”.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:54:00 +0000

Just block Google APIs and scrolling remains finite.

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:40:00 +0000

came here for this. I used J successfully until Maggie’s smartgrid post, then it sent me back to the masthead. annoying. I thought it was a bug with the ad below her post goofing it up, but then i saw this. macOSX 10.5.8/firefox latest.

By: Randall Cooper

Randall Cooper — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:40:00 +0000

Thank you, BoingBoingers. We love you, too!

By: John Hunter

John Hunter — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:26:00 +0000

You have one the same very annoying “features” of others “upgrading” which is if I have gotten to “page 3″ then click on something read it and go back you put me on page 1 and I have to scroll through and wait while the content I already loaded previously is reloaded… I sadly find so many of these javascript “enhancements” are just annoying.

Reading the comments you all do at least seem to be trying to fix some of the annoyances added.

By: DevinC

DevinC — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 02:46:00 +0000

This is awesome. Thank you BoingBoing.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:10:00 +0000

I’m not a fan either; infinite scrolling feels to me like some sort of pushy, commercially-driven appropriation of control from the user.

Please give us an option.

By: screwt

screwt — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:42:00 +0000

ha, this happened to me exactly on the “Infinite scroll” post. I read “Infinite scroll”, then 4 articles that I’d just seen, and then “Infinite scroll” again… I thought this was some kind of horrible joke and it would keep looping forever :-)

By: jimh

jimh — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:29:00 +0000

Awesome news, and at least SIXTY TWO TIMES more awesome when accompanied by Hyperbole and a Half artwork!!!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:22:00 +0000

I hate infinite scrolling on Tumblr blogs that are mostly little posts with pictures. It jerks the page around and makes me lose my place. On BB, where the posts are longer and you’re actually reading, it doesn’t seem to have the same effect.

By: unaboomer

unaboomer — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:17:00 +0000

Please tell the rest of the internet about this feature please.

By: Jacob Ewing

Jacob Ewing — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:03:00 +0000

As noted by others, there seems to be an interesting glitch of duplicate articles showing up. Presumably due to the aforementioned action of scrolling down partially and sitting idle for awhile.

Nice though.

By: tilthouse

tilthouse — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:54:00 +0000

“It couldn’t possibly be bottomless.”
“Well, for all intents and purposes.”

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:50:00 +0000

I’ve been cracking down on load times in the last couple weeks. Glad to see it’s paying off!

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:44:00 +0000

When I “J” to the bottom it goes back to the top of the site, where it stops I can wheel back to that spot on the site, ’til it gets to the bottom and J and K are not workin a-gaiiin.