If you ever feel useless

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani) 11/09/2018 at 09:19 • Filed to: None

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Remember there’s this bottom bar when there is infinite scroll.

No, Kinja team. I do not feel extra engaged in staying on the site when I see infinite scroll. I just close the freakin tab. Just get rid of that shit already. Adding that thicker blue line won't make me hate it less.

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 09:31

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Welcome to “stupid things that should have never been added”

Your boy, BJR > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 09:38

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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 09:42

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I still feel useless.

McMike > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 09:49

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Too late.

jimz > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 09:51

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if you ever feel useless, remember that there are people in BMW plants whose job is to install the turn signals.

Urambo Tauro > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 10:45

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Infinite Scroll wouldn’t be so bad if it automatically opened up additional comments instead of articles. But you’re right, there needs to be a better way to access the stuff at the bottom of the page. It’s time for Infinite Scroll to die.

404 - User No Longer Available > Urambo Tauro 11/09/2018 at 10:50

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Except the whole idea was to keep an user “engaged”, i.e. staying on a particular page longer. Sites that make ad revenue is benchmarked based on that, the theory is that the longer you stay at a page the better chance you notice an ad on that page .

It has nothing to do with usability or anything, just cheating metrics.

Urambo Tauro > 404 - User No Longer Available 11/09/2018 at 11:17

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To what extent is it based on clicks? I’ve been wondering that. Is “getting clicks” all about visiting different pages, or do all the in-page clicks count as well ?

Infinite Scroll suggests that it’s about visiting as many pages as possible, but having to keep clicking  “more replies” suggests that they’re trying for more literal intentional clicks.

404 - User No Longer Available > Urambo Tauro 11/09/2018 at 11:30

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I was more referring to visibility of an ad, and the probability of clicking the ad itself , I don’t think the gauge clicks unless it’s the ad itself.