[AngrySkillzz]

The medium is the message. We've been talking about this for decades - the structure of the thing you are interacting with determines how you interact with it. Substantive debate is difficult in 140 characters, so substantive debate does not often happen on Twitter. Infinite scroll and auto-play video eliminates the "decision points" where people would otherwise reconsider if they want to continue, so people spend more time on those sites than they would otherwise. Maybe the attributes of these mediums aren't "inherently bad," but they absolutely do influence the way that they are used and it is up to us to make the judgement of whether that has good or bad outcomes. And a lot of us think the results of infinite scroll is a bad outcome.

[ryandrake]

Also, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You judge a system by its outcome, not by the intentions of the people who built it.

[pseudalopex]

"The purpose of a system is what it does."

[tppiotrowski]

My understanding is that Hacker News currently paginates comments but they’re working hard to put them all on one page.

Maybe the intent is so you can use find in page to search all the comments at once or maybe something else but they will also inevitably lead you to read more comments and spend even more time on here.

[Sohcahtoa82]

> Substantive debate is difficult in 140 characters, so substantive debate does not often happen on Twitter.

When it comes to politics, Twitter is the absolute worst. When you have only 140 characters, there's no room for nuance or actual discussion, so arguments get boiled down to short 1-sentence zingers that are often nothing more than really bad straw men.