[crispinb]

I remember reading a thread about this issue on Discourse's own board, and it was clear the continuous scrolling was non-negotiable "because modish", regardless of user preferences or experience.

> I'm curious how much worse the performance would be if they did not apply this specific optimization.

Pages without continuous scrolling that can have large numbers of posts or entries don't typically show all by default. There are all the usual options - paging, allowing the user to choose the number per page, etc. They're all imperfect workarounds, and all better (for me) than continuous scrolling.