Me, too.

But there is a fix, I just discovered.
See here: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/tech...l#post29069614

Thanks for that.

Infinite scroll as a default option isn't my idea of a good idea, and yet it seems to be another case of "it's built so lets make as many people use it as possible whether it's ideal for the users or not".

Thank you! The website was unusable with infinite scroll enabled. Every time I scrolled it would reset to some sort of midpoint of the page I was on.

When will this be fixed?

Fixed? It's a feature, not a bug.

flyertalk = browser memory hog
 

Flyertalk seems to have astrnage way to dynamically show the posts in threads, eg;

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/prac...-passport.html

When i just scroll down the thread, it dynamically adds more and more posts, it even dynamically changes the URL, eg:

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/prac...assport-7.html

This is a nice user experience except that it seems to kill at least my windows 7 computer - with all browsers (firefox, chrome, explorer). Open the URL, let computer sit there for a while, and the memory for the browser goes up to as many gigs as the computer has (8). All browser extensions disabled...

Is there a way to change this through any setting to keep memory needs more in bounds ?

could it be the infinite scroll? in the other thread, a couple of people have mentioned it increases mobile data usage

Probably, thanks for moving my question. Just disabled infinite scroll. The idea is actually quite nice, from the usability perspective the main issue was that i would not always get the bar at the bottom that would allow me to explicitly go to the last page.

But its unusable as long as browsers just eat up memory, and given how this happened to me for all three browsers on windows, it seems as if its a systemtic issue.

Ditto. I actually liked some of the features included in the bottom bar, but the jumping behaviour made using the site on my tablet impossible to use. Have now turned off infinite scroll and other features as well, as some of the recent "improvements" meant giving up too much functionality for me.

I’ve had to do the same. Moderating and reading / posting have been challenging with some of the new features, particularly infinite scroll and the updated interface.

Option to go back to old forums? (infinite scroll - to merge)
 

When I click the link to view new posts in subscribed threads, just a slight scroll will cause older posts to load and then it's difficult to find the new posts.

I find going all the way to the last post of the thread and scrolling upwards to find the newest posts.

The old forums didn't have any of this problem.

Hi there! Do you still have Infinite Scroll enabled? It may be causing that problem. It can be disabled here: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/prof...do=editoptions

Thanks I'll give it a try.

Pagination
 

When I read threads that have multiple pages, I cannot find the link to move to the next page. Do I have setting turned off?


EDIT:I see it now. Sorry.

I just want to re-iterate how absolutely stupid this functionality is. I haven't seen any step back in web forum technology since I've been posting on them so this is a first.

Just to post here I had to scroll, wait, scroll, wait, etc, etc. For a multi-paged thread on a regular site, you'd just scroll and then hit last. I commonly want to scroll up to use the forum tools, but now you have to scroll many, many times to get to the top of a thread to find them. For long threads, finding particular pages is very useful.

This brings 0 benefit with it. Absolutely nothing. It brings a lot of drawbacks. A better change would have been to move each page to a large number of posts.

How about you guys stepping up, admitting that you made a mistake and let people who want this really useless feature opt in to it?