Infinite Scroll ENABLED
 

Logged in after some time and found the [INSANE] Infinite Scroll auto-enabled on my account.

Thank you. Just what I was looking for. Those super long threads have been the culprit to my browser being frozen.

No page links, 'auto' post/page loading. I hate it. (Infinite scroll - to merge)
 

Sometime in the recent past, the forum has had an update which removes the links to pages on topics. This is an awkward change that results in a poor, or sometimes unusable interface.

I like to scroll by clicking the center mouse button and dragging down the page. When I do that, additional posts pop onto the screen, adjusting the page length, causing my navigation to bounce everywhere. It is difficult to return to where you started also.

I also run into the problem that when I scroll to the top of the page (using a variety of methods), sometimes the earlier posts don't load, for some reason. Yet the links to other pages are gone. So it is impossible to navigate to those earlier posts!

Finally, if you are in the middle or start of a very long post, and want to jump to the final post, you can't. You have to scroll down, loading every single post, to get there. Or go back to the top menu where the page links happily still exist.

Please disable this function. It is unnecessary and awful. Keep the auto-loading if you must, but at least put the page links back.

Thank you

YES - THIS PROBLEM exactly!

And sometimes, there is NO way at the top of the page to "get back". No way to navigate to other pages in the thread, and no way to click on the "thread title".
When that happens - it's the worst, being intermittent - I usually need to close that tab and just reopen it anew, to get back to "the top".

It just seems "buggy" in a variety of ways, and no clear pattern.
(With a background ages ago in HW/SW QA, I found this was the kind of thing to drive us nuts... the variability of symptoms and of "when it occurs".)

And I just posted elsewhere other problems, but hadn't known for sure whether this (described here) was a "thing" or not.
It's a thing....!

GC

THANK GOD... I appreciate the help. I disabled it, and the sun is brighter and all is right with the world. :)

Sorry quite a long thread to read through and can't see anything in the wiki - but when clicking on an email alert it seems to jump to the new post (as per old behaviour) then jump back up to the top of the page - quite annoying to then have to try and work out where the new posts are. Can this be fixed??

I'm not sure which problem this is supposed to help with, but I keep getting a "page not found" from this link.

Help?
Thanks.

Ooops - I just tried one more time, and the link worked.
But I had tried about 5 or 6 times previously, just now. What's happening?

GC

I think I found the "place" to disable, but not from this link.
And "MyFlyerTalk" doesn't have a "Edit" choice anywhere.
Also, when I finally found the "disable" choice, it looked totally different from the screen shot saved.
If the entire page formatting has changed, perhaps the instructions here/above could be edited (or a new pointer?) so that it reflects the new display.

I still cannot find anything marked "Edit". But as an aside, I've found navigating FT much more difficult than any of the other Forums/Fora where I'm active. I assumed it was "just me", but after some time, it's not much better. Also, there is no full "TOC" or index/list of sub-forum/thread topics. Finding "Disability", for example, one must first *find* that it even exists. Once finding it, getting back is... tricky. Which of the headers in the left IS that in anyway...? Is there an expandable version of those left had headers? And here, every two or three characters is hanging before I can see what I'm typing... even in the middle of a word. This "feels" the same as the scrolling problem, where it suddenly jumps.

And sometimes the "clickable" boxes, such as "Preview Post" just aren't clickable. Later, they are...

GC

Hi there, you can Disable Infinite Scroll on this page: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/prof...do=editoptions (be sure to click save at the bottom, as well)

Do you have Infinite Scroll enabled? Can you forward me one of these emails at [email protected]?

You'll want "Edit Options". Here is the direct link (make sure to hit save at the bottom of the page!): https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/prof...do=editoptions

I guess so? I didn't disable anything so assuming it's on by default...

The email is just the standard one - example link for this thread was https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/show...4&goto=newpost

It doesn't seem to happen consistently - just sometimes. Perhaps best plan is to disable infinite scroll?

Yes, Infinite Scroll is on by default and turning it off can resolve some issues.

Thanks, have turned off now and see how things are :)