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by mcv 2307 days ago
The naive way is to scroll down a ridiculous amount and then do a simple ctrl-F. It would be nice if infinite-scroll sites provided their own search function that searched through all potential content for that page.

(And then probably provide those search results on an infinite-scroll page, requiring another search function to search through those search results. It's infinite scroll all the way down.)

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It's exactly after realizations like this that one (unreasonably, to be very explicit) decides all the GUIs are leaky abstractions and should be avoided.

Then you want to do some math and realize how amazing visual spreadsheets are.

What I mean is, there's no perfect solution and it all depends on what you're trying to achieve.