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I've seen this disappear from the web so much that it's jarring to encounter nowadays. It was never, ever good UX.



It is an excellent feature in certain contexts, for example image galleries. In other contexts, however, it's horrible.


It's terrible for image galleries too, as the images stay in RAM and the memory usage can quickly become insane. Animated GIF galleries are especially bad for this.


Depends on implementation, you could remove the images from DOM when the user has scrolled passed them, and many libraries for inifinite scroll do exactly that.


I mean an image gallery of thumbnails, that lead to the real image. Like you search for a wallpaper with key words and then scroll to infinity and open the interesting ones in a new tab.


Twitter still does it, but their implementation is not terrible.


Twitter is horrible - scroll down a few pages, click something interesting, hit back, and you’ve lost position, and have to reload and rescroll through everything again. Even worse because some clicks will open a modal that you can close and save position, but other clicks will reload the page.


It s horrible. I constantly lose posts because of zooming in, open in new tabs, misclick etc. And its made even worse by the fact that the whole feed will change if i hit reload

I wish i could turn it off like tumblr


Really? I'm seeing it more and more.




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