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by kgeist 1482 days ago
Heh, in a feature we're about to release, infinite scrolling was indeed dictated by the programmers, as it makes the API cleaner and somewhat more scalable ("incremental loading of data with an opaque next page token" as opposed to "go to page 80 and I don't care if it takes forever/complex archirecturally to make it fast/consistent"). We could have added a "load more" button but it looks somewhat terrible on mobile.