[regularfry]

Infinite scrolling breaks what was a universal UI convention, and an interaction mode which has worked everywhere for well over 30 years, for a downright nebulous gain. You've made my browser's scrollbar widget dramatically less useful. Even on sites where I now know to expect it, I still end up unexpectedly jumping around the page while I'm trying to scroll through and read the content because the scroll bar I'm trained to use (30 years of training, remember) gets displaced out from under my mouse pointer when the next chunk of content loads.

You've replaced something which required no thought with something that requires conscious effort. Not only that, but I now have to learn how every site that implements infinite scrolling does it, because the conventions I expect for page length and page position don't hold any more. Given your response above, the very best you can hope to say is that compared to a paginated interface, you've only broken it a little bit. That's a very long way away from being worth the trade-off.

Infinite scrolling is gratuitous over-engineering, and as far as I'm concerned, any site which uses it is just broken.

[rch]

This sounds suspiciously similar to popular arguments against the mostly-button-free iPhone interface to me.

[hiphopyo]

The fact that two of the largest sites Facebook and Twitter use it is good enough for me. All the young ladies I've spoken to don't seem to mind infinite scrolling either.

[mcmillion]

Everything you said, but completely reversed.