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by craigspaeth 4366 days ago
That's a fair point. I think there are arguments for both pagination and infinite scroll and one is not necessarily better than the other. Jeff Atwood has an interesting post on this http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-end-of-pagination/ where I think he makes a good point about "[...] once you have thousands of items to paginate, who the heck is visiting page 964 of 3810?". On the other hand infinite scroll has a slew of quirks with it too, so there are arguments both ways.
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The argument that nobody is visiting page 964 of 3810 on a paginated UI seems somewhat compelling at first until you realize that nobody is scrolling down to the 964th screenful out of 3810 either, and even if they do, your infinite scrolling implementation made it more painful than necessary and is probably making them scared of clicking anything lest the whole thing get reset to 0 all over again.