Add infinite scrolling?

[sylvinus]

DuckDuckGo does a good job at this. Should we do the same?

I know there is an argument against infinite scrolling in many cases. Does it apply to us? What about the (currently non-existent) footer? What about mobile?

[mauricesvay]

Arguments against infinite scrolling:

• you can't reach the footer
  • this can be solved by having a fixed footer
  • dribbble solved that by pausing infinite loading every 4 pages or so
• click on a result, hit back, you usually have to reload all the pages to get back where you were
  • this can be solved if you can access any pagination offset by url. You would then be able to "Load more", or "Load previous results" from this url.

Infinite scrolling is much more common pattern on mobile. Supporting infinite scrolling on desktop would make the experience more consistent across devices.

[sylvinus]

Good points @mauricesvay!

Pagination offsets are already accessibly by URL (and will continue to be, we have to support javascript-less clients) so it would indeed make sense to update the p=N parameter in the URL via html5 history to allow coming back to the same spot.