Is there any way to get the infinite scrolling like on reddit?

3 years ago by Sekemoto to c/nostupidquestions

On reddit, with the reddit enhancement suite extension, you don't have the next button since it just loads up the next page right below. This lets you keep scrolling and scrolling. Is there anything like that for lemmy?

troyunrau 28 points 3 years ago

Connect for Lemmy (android) does infinite scrolling pretty well.

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SpezHater69 8 points 3 years ago

Yes I've noticed it's pretty good at wasting a lot of my time lol

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idunnololz 0 points 3 years ago

That's why I was hesitant to introduce it to Summit. But it's what people want so I did add this eventually

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vreten 19 points 3 years ago path: 0 1287587, hotness: undefined, score: 19, children: 3
Sekemoto 2 points 3 years ago

Ok this seems to be exactly what I was looking for. I love the look of old reddit as it's so compact. Thanks!

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lw6352 2 points 3 years ago

I wonder if this can become an official theme for Lemmy that can be selected!

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Druntar 1 point 4 months ago

This gets snagged by my adblocker and the root domain is just a chinese porn site. Gave me a chuckle.

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badhops 17 points 3 years ago

use wefwef (Voyager) because of the scroll

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TheSaneWriter 16 points 3 years ago

Just for reference, Voyager is the new name for the app that used to be called wefwef. As such, wefwef.app and vger.app are both pointing to the same thing.

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AFKBRBChocolate 5 points 3 years ago

I haven't used any of the apps yet, so haven't paid attention - what made then change the name?

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TheSaneWriter 8 points 3 years ago

The app developer wanted a new and more serious name for the app and Voyager got the most support on a handful of community posts.

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AFKBRBChocolate 4 points 3 years ago

Ah, that makes sense, thanks

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LemmyRefugee 4 points 3 years ago path: 0 1287987 1295223, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 2
TheSaneWriter 2 points 3 years ago

It looks like that's a Voyager instance. Voyager is open source, so Lemmy instances are free to host a Voyager instance as an alternate frontend. The main Voyager instance can support any Lemmy instance, but here it's only for lemmy.world.

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ora 2 points 3 years ago

It looks like the main difference is that Voyager supports multiple servers.

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eugenia 12 points 3 years ago

I don't like infinite scrolling. It's resource heavy after a while.

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Waldhuette 14 points 3 years ago

How is that answering the question of OP ?

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abbadon420 4 points 3 years ago

I like sharing my opinion on here.

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Chilihuahua 5 points 3 years ago

I paid for 32 gigs of RAM, I'm gonna USE 32 gigs of RAM, damnit!

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fiat_lux 4 points 3 years ago

Agreed. It also makes interacting with the footer or any other content that follows difficult/impossible.

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Mr_Blott 3 points 3 years ago

This is why I'm eagerly awaiting Sync for Lemmy. I'm still trying to swipe left to hide posts :)

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Waldhuette 4 points 3 years ago

Both Sync and Boost will be a godsend

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dog 1 point 3 years ago

This is actually false. Browsers have very good garbage/memory management, and will work perfectly fine with loading infinite amounts of data to the page.

The issue is absolutely horrible coding from frontend devs that causes bloat which the browser doesn't clean off due to static references.

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activator90 11 points 3 years ago
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activator90 2 points 3 years ago
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98codes 4 points 3 years ago

Voyager is the new app name for wefwef, hosted as the url I posted. Same app, not sure if the old url redirects or what.

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zorrothefox2001 11 points 3 years ago

I've been using mlmym.org. Gives a very similar experience to old.reddit + RES.

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IthronMorn 9 points 3 years ago

Vger.app

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Nugget 9 points 3 years ago path: 0 1287262, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 0
Hogger85b 8 points 3 years ago

In RiF I turned pages back on as I found it helped me
be more productive. Websites scrolling is additive and like addictions can be unhealthy. Having that natural pause every 25links allows an out to asses if have more time or need to eat or g do somthing else or take 1s to click a buttom

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idunnololz 3 points 3 years ago

This is 100% why I initially designed Summit to be page based. Infinity scrolling is awesome if your intent is to suck people in. But I'm not a corporation trying to maximize profits so I would much rather help people manage their time.

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int-argc-char-argv 4 points 3 years ago path: 0 1288216, hotness: undefined, score: 4, children: 1
Arotrios 1 point 3 years ago

This is the way.

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dog 4 points 3 years ago

Try Liftoff for Lemmy, not sure it has a Google Playstore page, but it is in FDroid. The best FDroid client (in my opinion) is Neostore, so check that out if you're looking to check it. [ https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store ]

For PC, others have already listed several alternatives.

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Madbrad200 2 points 3 years ago path: 0 1294384 1321773, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 0
berkat 4 points 3 years ago

This is kind of odd on desktop, but lemmy.world added voyager (previously wefwef) as the default view if you visit m.lemmy.world.

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Pamasich 1 point 4 months ago

Infinite Scrolling is an anti-pattern meant to get you addicted, that's probably why the Lemmy devs didn't include it. You might want to look into alternate frontends for Lemmy. I have no experience with them, but they might have the feature.

I'm using Mbin, where Infinite Scrolling is an optional setting that is turned off by default but can be turned on even logged out via the sidebar. So if this is a feature you need, and no alternative Lemmy frontend provides it, consider switching to Mbin.

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Mane25 -6 points 3 years ago

Why would anyone want that? I always thought that was just an addiction trap for commercial sites to trick you in to browsing for longer - we've broken free from that kind of BS here haven't we?

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balance_sheet 10 points 3 years ago
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Mane25 0 points 3 years ago

That wasn't my intention.

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Stoneykins 1 point 3 years ago

What was your intention? Your comment seems like a direct value judgement, and you made no obvious effort to answer the question. Weren't you basically telling OP "you shouldn't want that"?

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Mane25 3 points 3 years ago

I thought I was jovially expressing confusion but that clearly didn't come across (and admittedly re-reading it, I agree, I misjudged the tone, it's not my best comment).

I really didn't realise that anyone actually liked infinite scrolling and hoped that somebody would explain it to me.

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Hogger85b 2 points 3 years ago

Well they can have that opinion. If someone ask a what spoon is best to chase the dragon maybe some people will reply maybe you should find a way out

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