[EvilTrout]

> For maximum usability, why shouldn't the app support both infinite scroll and paginated, and let the USER choose (by url slug or GET param)?

I've always thought we could do this as there is no technical reason why we couldn't offer both.

But honestly we receive very few complaints about it from users of the software. It seems here on HN that infinite scrolling is not super popular, but we are not getting the same feedback from our users.

[harshreality]

I suspect all you'd have to do for the other option is disable automatically swapping out pages when the bottom or top of a page is reached. Leaving the box with up and down arrows, adding a second set of double arrows, and using that for jumping N posts forward or back, or to the beginning and end.

I think javascript in-place loading of different pages is great (avoids reloading a lot of boilerplate and dependencies). What I don't agree with is the automatic altering of page contents based on where I am on the page, absent any indication (like clicking a button) that I want to change pages.