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by macintosh-hd 1074 days ago
As an ex-user who has yet to return, the worst part about using it in 2018 was no post body searching and how bad the home page was. You could be reading a post, it randomly refreshes, and you will never find that post again due to the search being unusable. Considering how much I hear about users searching for old classic posts on the platform, I am doubtful they fixed the search.
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>You could be reading a post, it randomly refreshes, and you will never find that post again due to the search being unusable.

I experience this with every platform that utilizes infinite scroll. Infinite scroll seems deliberately unsearchable in favor of slot machine style "who knows what's next" scrolling. Pretty degenerate.

I almost never have this problem with Twitter. But for the most part, yeah.
That's weird. Twitter has been the worst offender. If you let a page sit for a seemingly random period and come back, the page will reload and leave you back at the top. Doesn't happen to you?
Maybe once every 2-3 weeks but almost never. Tumblr it was almost every time.