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by derefr 2124 days ago
You might resent the autoscroll on the website, but did you consider that the group chat program also has an infinite scroll, for chat history? Imagine what a hypothetical scrollbar for the group-chat program would look like if it had one, and if that scrollbar actually represented your relative position in a complete timeline going back to when the chat-group was created. :)
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Consider that an actual timeline is a better interface for chat history than an infinitely scrolling log.
Genuinely curious: what is the difference? Pagination?

What are some examples of the two approaches?