Infinite scrolling

Like, is regular paging not cool anymore?

Infinite scrolling is cool for the first few 'pages' of content. Wow, it loads more as I scroll down, cool. But if you need to view an old entry, you find yourself scrolling and scrolling for hours, unless you realize you have missed your entry (or unless your browser crashes because the page has grown too big-- sure, it loads more contents, but it doesn't unload old contents).



Using AJAX to load whole pages (when clicking links and such)

What's the deal with that? Why do they need to replicate the browser's functionality?

This is a bottomless well of issues. For example, on Youtube, you search for a video. You scroll down the list, and click a video. You want to go back. It remembers your scroll position on the previous page, sure... but it tries to apply it BEFORE the previous page has loaded, making it useless.

Sure, that's Youtube coding, no surprise. But there's also the thing that browsers are able to cache old pages, to some extent, so going back shows you the old page without making requests (and shows you what you had entered in fields if there were any). This type of AJAX page loading completely bypasses the browser's caching logic. Not only do they step on the browser's toes, but they also manage to cancel its functionality.



Generally, overusing AJAX

Have you ever noticed glitches when posting on GBAtemp (or probably any Xenforo board)? You submit your post, it appends the post via AJAX, all cool... but half the time it also duplicates the thread's last few posts.

I have no problem with AJAX functionality when it's coded right. But when it's borderline useless AND they mash together shitty buggy Javascript, they need to just stop.

Is this board less usable because posting takes you to a new page instead of appending posts via AJAX? Nope.



The HTTPS bandwagon

How could I have forgotten about it. HTTPS makes sense when you're sending sensitive shit, like bank account credentials. But what sense does it make for a random messageboard or blog? What's the point of encrypting every damn thing? Believing your data are safe from the NSA? They don't even care about you.

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'Load more' buttons are as bad as infinite scrolling. They're actually making it worse. They require interaction and still have all the downsides of infinite scrolling.


Just use goddamn pagination.

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Youtube is on that way. Pretty much video exists in HTML5 in all possible resolutions by now, so they could as well stop calling HTML5 experimental and drop Flash already.


Besides, not sure how that'll last given their coding skills, but the HTML5 player works fine. The Flash one is a pile of shit and keeps glitching for whatever reason.

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