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by gruez 2527 days ago
>you're back at the beginning, and have to search for that video again? That sucks.

1. browsers have some sort of cache[1] that allows them to restore closed/previously visited pages without doing a page reload. granted, it's not very reliable, but it'd probably work most of the time as long as you're not memory constrained or visiting too many pages in-between.

2. if the infinite load mechanism also updates the url (via the history api), then this wouldn't be an issue.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Rel...
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plorkyeran 2527 days ago
Discourse has the only implementation of infinite scroll that I've ever seen consistently preserve state over a reload. Either everyone but them is incompetent, or it's much more difficult to do well than it seems.

(I still don't particularly like Discourse's implementation of infinite scroll because their custom scroll thing is awful to use.)

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