'tis a rant

[lirazel]

I hate infinite scroll/lack of pagination that is the new trend on websites now. Hate it. It can occasionally be useful (Google image searches or other sites where you can scan lots of pretty pictures quickly), but on general websites, nothing makes me angrier.

I'm trying to catch up on a couple of websites's old articles that I didn't read when they were posted. But these websites no longer have pagination options in their archives (they aren't automatic infinite scroll--you have to click "read more" to get previously-posted content, but THERE ARE NO PAGE OPTIONS). So if I read page 1-4 today in the archives, there is no way for me to jump directly to page 5 tomorrow. This isn't such a big deal at the beginning when I just have to hit the "load more" button a couple of times, but by the time I'm to page 25 or whatever, this becomes a truly annoying thing, not to mention once you get past a certain point, your computer starts to freeze up because you have too much stuff loaded.

And google search is resulting in NO extensions for any browser that will render these sites in page form. I could yank all my hair out and cry, I'm so frustrated. Honestly nothing on the internet causes me this much anger at the moment. NOTHING.

Comments

[deird1]

I AGREE WITH THIS RANT AND WOULD LIKE TO SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR NEWSLETTER.

*rages along with you*

[next_to_normal]

SECONDED. (Thirded?) Infinite scroll is the bane of my internet existence.

[lirazel]

It seriously is. I can't think of another internet-related thing that annoys me as much.

[lirazel]

I am so, so, so hoping that this is just a ~trend and it will only last for a short time and then everyone will go back to layouts that ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. At this point I cut and paste articles and put them in Word. Way too much trouble but it makes me lass cranky.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

That is so much more than you should need to do just to be able to read articles. But I'm glad you've found a solution to make you less cranky. I have yet to find one for when I find new websites I haven't read before and I want to read their back catalogue!

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

I HATE INFINITE SCROLLING SO MUCH TOO for me it's not even technology issues so much that infinite scrolling without even a load more option just makes me feel exhausted, like, IT NEVER ENDS. that's part of why i'm barely on twitter anymore -- their infinite scrolling at least used to be a clickable thing but now it just GOES ON AND ON and omg my brain just cannot with it, IT IS AWKWARD AND TERRIBLE.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

HAAAAATE. And all the sites are doing it now! Apparently some study was done that said people read more articles on sites with infinite scrolling and so that's why all the sites are doing it BUT I WANT BACKLASH TO START SOON. I don't understand why there are tons of people all over the internet complaining about this because it is the worST!!!!

[kikimay]

I also hate the infinite scrolling stuff. Why they had to change the options? Why?

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why they can't make it optional! That would make my life so much better!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

They call it inifinite scroll because IT IS HELL.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

AMEN. Everyone I know seems to hate it and yet it is ubiquitous.