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Nope, I love infinite scroll as a user. I even use extensions to add it to paginated websites. I wish those websites had infinite scroll as default or as an option cause infinite scroll extensions can be jankey.

Not saying there aren't bad implementations of infinite scroll out there, those do need to die off, but they aren't that common.

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I hate it as a user, it needs to die because it makes my user experience so much worse. I've never seen a not-broken implementation. Suddenly, the end key cannot take me to the bottom of the page, using the browsers native search function (which I will always chose over an in-page alternative) cannot do its thing, I can no longer get an idea of how far along I am in the list, and I cannot do a quick visual scan of many items because dragging the scrollbar does not behave naturally. Page up and page down is all but broken.

A compromise may be a browser option that one can set globally to indicate whether one wants pagination (and how many results per page) or infini-scroll.

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