Infinite scroll is about making it as seamless as possible for the user to get new information.
How many times do you go on a paginated page, get to page 5 and say "okay, after page 6 I'm done." Then you either leave or continue on that process...
Infinite scrolling takes away your perspective of exactly how much content you're consuming and how much time you may be wasting. It is only until youre done and you attempt to scroll back up that you realize how much time youve spent.
My side-project now is very much like Tumblr/Pinterest and I found this post interesting because for awhile ive been trying to find the best middle-ground between infinite scrolling and some form of incremental, pagination-styled display of content.
Honestly I'm stumped but for right now my best solution is to load about 20 items, lazy load another 30, and use pagination for the rest. Although I've been thinking about just displaying an infinite scroll toggle switch on the bottom of the viewport after the user reaches the end of the initial item list.
How many times do you go on a paginated page, get to page 5 and say "okay, after page 6 I'm done." Then you either leave or continue on that process...
Infinite scrolling takes away your perspective of exactly how much content you're consuming and how much time you may be wasting. It is only until youre done and you attempt to scroll back up that you realize how much time youve spent.
My side-project now is very much like Tumblr/Pinterest and I found this post interesting because for awhile ive been trying to find the best middle-ground between infinite scrolling and some form of incremental, pagination-styled display of content.
Honestly I'm stumped but for right now my best solution is to load about 20 items, lazy load another 30, and use pagination for the rest. Although I've been thinking about just displaying an infinite scroll toggle switch on the bottom of the viewport after the user reaches the end of the initial item list.