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by flatline 5624 days ago
Ugh, I hope this does not happen, I hate the scroll-to-the-bottom-and-get-more thing. Particularly if the server is under heavy load already, you never know if there is more or if so how much, and it takes the scrollbar away from your mouse pointer once it's loaded another chunk due to the relative offset.
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Maybe I'm missing something because I've never seen it before, but has anyone ever tried leaving blank space at the bottom of the first page relative to the total number of comments? It may work better on items of fixed length than comments, but even on comments it would at least make the scrolling a little less jumpy.
I'm confused by your reasons. With scroll for more, you would know if there is more- the end is the end, just like with pagination. And it's no worse than pagination in the "you don't know how much more" department, either. The pagination is a "More" link, it doesn't indicate how much is on the next page.
One would think it would be relatively trivial for "More" to become "256 More" or similar...