infinite scroll Concepts

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again

by Johann Hari · 25 Jan 2022 · 390pp · 120,864 words

out of school when he was fifteen, and he spent literally almost all his waking hours at home alternating blankly between screens—his phone, an infinite scroll of WhatsApp and Facebook messages, and his iPad, on which he watched a blur of YouTube and porn. At moments, I could still see in

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he was the creative lead on Firefox. As part of this work, he designed something that distinctly changed how the web works. It’s called “infinite scroll.” Older readers will remember that it used to be that the internet was divided into pages, and when you got to the bottom of one

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access were always advances. His invention quickly spread all over the internet. Today, all social media and lots of other sites use a version of infinite scroll. But then Aza watched as the people around him changed. They seemed to be unable to pull themselves away from their devices, flicking through and

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through and through, thanks in part to the code he had designed. He found himself infinitely scrolling through what he often realized afterward was crap, and he wondered if he was making good use of his life. One day, when he was

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thirty-two, Aza sat down and did a calculation. At a conservative estimate, infinite scroll makes you spend 50 percent more of your time on sites like Twitter. (For many people, Aza believes, it’s vastly more.) Sticking with this

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is that makes their life well-lived. It just…” He trailed off. I pictured my young godson Adam and all his teenage friends, scrolling, scrolling, infinitely scrolling. Aza told me he felt “sort of dirty.” He realized: “These things we do, they really can change the world. Then the question immediately follows

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Silicon Valley were actually “mak[ing] technology that tears us, rips us, and breaks us.” He carried on designing more things in the vein of infinite scroll, and getting more and more uncomfortable. “It was about the time that we were getting to be really successful at this that my stomach started

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it all. You’d be pushed to look once a day, instead of being interrupted several times an hour. “Here’s another one,” he said. “Infinite scroll.” That’s his invention, where when you get to the bottom of the screen, it automatically loads more and more, forever. “What’s going on

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impulses before your brain has a chance to really get involved and make a decision.” Facebook and Instagram and the others could simply turn off infinite scroll—so that when you get to the bottom of the screen, you have to make a conscious decision to carry on scrolling. Similarly, these sites

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making us extra-human”: This is as recalled by Aza in his interview with me. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT At a conservative estimate, infinite scroll makes you spend 50 percent more of your time: There’s a debate about the precise numbers for this, because it’s inherently hard to

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page on the website). For example, Time’s bounce rate apparently dropped by 15 percent when it introduced infinite scroll in 2014; Quartz readers view about 50 percent more stories than they would without infinite scroll. Both of these figures come from S. Kirkland, “Time.com’s Bounce Rate Down 15 Percentage Points Since

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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words

, the actual name for the technical feature that allows this experience harkens back to Wallace’s novel. It’s called the “infinite scroll.” Designed by Silicon Valley engineer Aza Raskin, the infinite scroll changed the way the web worked.[31] Once upon a time, you would arrive at the end of a web page

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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words

comparing our imperfect fleshy selves with the sanitized digital simulacra of selfhood that appears online and finding ourselves wanting, endlessly finding ourselves trapped in an infinite scroll of algorithmically advantaged outrage and scorn—exerts such a subtle psychic violence that we might not even be aware of it as it’s happening

Vue.js 2 Cookbook

by Andrea Passaglia · 27 Apr 2017 · 550pp · 84,515 words

Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Creating a REST client (and server!) Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Implementing infinite scrolling Getting ready How to do it... How it works... Processing a request before sending it out Getting ready How to do it... How it works

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sending it Creating a form and sending data to your server Recovering from an error during a request Creating a REST client (and server!) Implementing infinite scrolling Processing a request before sending it out Preventing XSS attacks to your app Introduction Web applications rarely work all by themselves. What makes them interesting

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can imagine that it uses the DELETE verb. Axios makes this very clear by naming the methods of its API with the verbs themselves. Implementing infinite scrolling Infinite scrolling is a fine example of what you can do with Vue and AJAX. It is also quite popular and can improve interaction for some kind

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of content. You will build a random word generator that works with infinite scrolling. Getting ready We will use Axios. Take a look at the Sending basic AJAX requests with Axios recipe to know how to install it and

Pragmatic Guide to JavaScript

by Christophe Porteneuve · 15 Nov 2010 · 141pp · 9,896 words

Tooltips 44 Task 13. Making Unobtrusive Pop-Ups 46 Task 14. Preloading Images 48 Task 15. Creating a Lightbox Effect 50 Task 16. Implementing an “Infinite Scroll” 52 Task 17. Maintaining Viewport When Loading Content 54 Form-fu 56 Task 18. Temporarily Disabling a Submit Button 58 Task 19. Providing Input Length

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and make informed decisions. • Part 3 is all about the user interface, especially visual effects and neat UI ideas: good-looking tooltips, lightboxes, image preloading, infinite scrolling, and the like. • Part 4 is complementary to Part 3, because it focuses on forms, a critical part of most web applications. Among other things

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a Lightbox Effect, shows a top-notch solution. • Browsing large datasets is sometimes better done through smart scrolling, as illustrated in Task 16, Implementing an “Infinite Scroll”. • There are times when you need to load new content above the position in the page that triggers such loading; to avoid destabilizing visual behavior

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Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com>this copy is (P1.0 printing, November 2010) I MPLEMENTING AN “I NFINITE S CROLL” 16 Implementing an “Infinite Scroll” Gmail introduced us to infinite scroll, spelling doom for pagination in a number of scenarios. Many people (certainly not all, though) find it more efficient to scroll through a

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was just one way—the non-JavaScript way. But as soon as JavaScript is enabled, you can hide any pagination links and replace them with infinite scroll when that makes sense. I leave that decision to your usability experts—and to your good sense. As you can see on the facing code

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, infinite scroll is nothing too fancy. The only tricky part is jumping through a couple of hoops to get our metrics right, across browsers, as evidenced in

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal · 26 Dec 2013 · 199pp · 43,653 words

12). FIGURE 12 Scrolling with Pinterest How can a Web site make browsing easier? One solution, popularized by digital pin-board site Pinterest, is the infinite scroll. In the past getting from one web page to the next required clicking and waiting. However, on sites such as Pinterest, whenever the user nears

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener · 14 Jan 2020 · 237pp · 74,109 words

algorithm told me what my aesthetic was: the same as everyone else I knew. The platforms, designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data, inspired an infinite scroll. They encouraged a cultural impulse to fill all spare time with someone else’s thoughts. The internet was a collective howl, an outlet for everyone

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words

the FBM to develop addictive algorithms like the ones in Las Vegas slot machines, to create suggestions for new contacts on LinkedIn, to design the “infinite scroll” on Facebook, to reinforce extremist channels on Twitter, and to devise the “streak” feature on Snapchat where kids are rewarded for making contact every day

Facebook: The Inside Story

by Steven Levy · 25 Feb 2020 · 706pp · 202,591 words

a new dimension of toxic addictiveness with the digital tools and artificial-intelligence breakthroughs of the twenty-first century. He considered News Feed and other “infinite scrolls” the worst offenders, Facebook being the worst of the worst. In the United States, around one-fourth of all mobile Internet time was Facebook time

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words

and more efficient ways to feed us novelty. The major design innovations that have shaped the social media interface—the pull-to-refresh function, the infinite scroll, the multidirectional swiping, the autoplay routines—are all intended to make seeking easier and more efficient. Our compulsion to discover new stuff once required us

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a quarter million followers or subscribers. Pop-up alerts could remind users of the number of people who might see a post or a message. Infinite scrolls, autoplay functions, and personalized feeds and advertisements could be banned outright. There’s much to be said for the frictional design approach. It introduces values