What is "Infinite Scrolling"? - Discourse Documentation

Source: https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-infinite-scrolling/30804

“Infinite Scrolling” is a term for what is happening if you’re scrolling through a page filled with content and - as, or before, you reach the bottom - more content is loaded automatically

https://learndiscourse.org/public/resources/infinite-scrolling.mp4

Discourse attempts to utilise infinite scrolling in a way that solely adds to the user’s reading experience, and never detracts from it.

Discourse takes full advantage of HTML5’s History API.
As you scroll, the browser address bar is updated according to your reading position.
Back/forward buttons work as expected.
The pagination widget tells you how far along you are, and lets you jump to the beginning, end, or an exact postID of your choice.
Only JSON calls are made. No site elements need to be redrawn in order to load more content, which means minimal bandwidth usage.

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