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I would argue that "modern UX expectations" is a large part of the problem with Discourse. Infinite scrolling is one prominent example. Wasteful whitespace is another.

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With signatures and details about the user who posted, vBulletin and phpBB use up so much white space for shorter comments (which is most of them).

Personally, I love that Discourse allows j/k for keyboard navigation. I get the hate over infinite scrolling. I feel mixed over the two approaches.

https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbulletin-5-connect/vbulle...

Not everyone has the same UI tastes _shrug_. There's no need to turn this into a bikeshed on UI tastes.

You're right. But the way to do so is to give users a choice, instead of using solutions that bundle the server side with the UX.

I can definitely agree with this.

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