Stop building websites with infinite scroll!

This article is very bad, but I firmly participate in the camp "Do not use infinite scroll". From curiosity, in addition to being infinitely infinite, what is a good use of infinite scrolling pagination? The only place I can ever think is to see the mobile website with my cell phone, but I still do not believe it.

Opinion: Yes, I really want to scroll to the bottom and stop. With the old Reddit, there are 100 stories on my home page, but when I touch down, I have to make a conscious decision to update the page. With New Reddit, I will neither leave nor train myself to stop early.

You may want to scroll the actual scroll bar instead of the mouse wheel. You can move long pages faster, for example by clicking and dragging, such as two fingers scrolling slowly on the trackpad (you can move exactly as accurately). As the number of pages continues to increase, this will be completely broken

It almost always breaks the navigation. Attempting to connect to the navigation to return to an infinite scroll page does not have a way to enable back / forward to refer to an infinite scrolling page. This means that the more you go to the bottom, it becomes more difficult to navigate what has already been loaded, and if the various points scrolled on the page are displayed in the history, you can not return to the page indefinitely I mean it. Start before scrolling

It has little meaning. Paging work is OK. You have to wait after clicking the next / previous page unless you split the page sufficiently slow and bad enough. Using XKCD - Clicking on prev / next for a while will take enough time to load. This is because it is not infinite scrolling. (Try using alt + P and alt + N.) Suspicious content is also bound above and below the left and right arrow keys. Even if there are huge ads on the right side, it is enough to move. These are ordinary sites that reload the entire page while moving, not applications that can not be displayed on a single page. On the other hand, if your website is thick enough, pagination will delay it, I hate that you will waste all my memory by infinite scroll and never release.

Perhaps the biggest annoyance for users dealing with infinite scrolling is that the browser does not record the point at which scrolling has stopped in infinitely scrolled pages. This can be particularly irritating if you click on a link from a location with a long scroll page and go to the next page or website on the same tab. When you return by clicking the back arrow, do not absolutely go to the same place. When you return to the original page, you need to reach the same position from the beginning of the infinite scroll. This wastes a lot of time and it is a very irritating work for some users. This is because pages that scroll indefinitely are usually to reset the scroll to the first part when the user leaves.

So far, users are not only familiar with infinite scrolling - this design method continues to update pages even when scrolling down the page. The purpose of the surface design is to replace pagination, and infinite scrolling is said to be more friendly and convenient for the user experience, but is it true? On the web, page loading speed is all. According to the survey, if the loading time is too late, the user may get away from the website and the conversion rate may decrease in general. Your customers and website visitors do not mind how cool your site looks and whether it has beautiful graphics

Long scroll gradually became the standard of the website. Even the long and infinite scrolling technology will be a new navigation method. It is very useful for handheld devices and devices with small displays. A long scrolling web resource attracts users and turns their interaction into a journey. Parallax scrolling Website design is more widespread across the Internet. The parallax itself first appears in the visual effect of a 2D side scrolling game that uses different image moving speeds. For example, I would like to represent many other video games such as Valiant Hearts, Limbo, good'ol Battletoads etc.