Hate it! :(

But thanks FT for allowing me to disable it (as explained in post #2). Because of that, we're still good... ^ :)

Here's their answer in the other thread on opt-in:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/27788362-post4.html

Also hate this new feature especially since it screws up my back button (apparently every time it scrolls it adds another entry to the back queue, at least in Chrome, making back button unusable). Opting out. I wish it would be opt in period since now if I browse without being logged in I'm stuck with this bad behavior.

This additional "feature" has been mentioned several times now but I think that the posts have been moved.

Edit: actually they are still there but I think other posts have been moved into this thread.

Agree with Pitflyer on this. This new "feature" completely makes it impossible to use the back button. Instead of trying to do both (infinite scroll and finite messages per page), in the option where you can select the number of posts to see per page, just add an "All" as an option.

For EVERYONE having trouble with the back button, two questions:
1. Are you using a mobile device?
2. When you click and hold "Back" in your browser, does it display as:
"Page 2
Page 3
Page 2
Page 3
Page 2
Page 3" (for example)

I don't mind trying new things, but having some problems with this (using Safari on iPad). Apart from the irritation when the page flickers as you get to the bottom, when I try to post using the reply or quick reply links, it always quotes a post in the box (not necessarily the last one). I'm not going to delete text every time I post. If I'm doing something wrong, please tell me, otherwise I will opt out until that is fixed.

1: Firefox 50.1.0 on OSX 10.12.2 on an iMac
2: It was showing the same thread for each but the page number was out of the box and I have now disabled the option.

I shall add their reasoning to my long list of either "well they would say that wouldn't they"....or possibly "you couldn't make it up if you tried". I am sure there are other better excuses for it.

I have always wanted infinite scroll (I hate pages), but am not seeing it on my laptop in Chrome.

ETA:

Ok, I logged out and back in. Now I can scroll down two full pages at a time (for me, that's 80 posts), but it will not go any farther. If I start at the top of page 1 I can get to post 80 by continuously scrolling, but then I have to select page 3, at which point I can scroll to post 160 but it again stops.

Maybe it wasn't tested in the scenario where one has selected more posts/page than the default, as I have?

I changed my preferences to yours, but did not have this problem. What browser/operating system are you using?

I see that the page number is cut off (that's just the layout of FF), but was not able to make this problem happen. However, we are continuing to test things that might give the "Back" functionality trouble.

1. Not using a mobile device.
2. Yes

Disabled this "feature." Bottom bar took up too much real estate, couldn't use "back" in browser, just overall very annoying functionality.

I just hit quick reply and the form came pre-filled with the quote above. I wasn't trying to quote it! I was going to do a multi quote but didn't see the button.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that I find the bar takes up too much screen space on the iPad. And has an annoying flicker when you reach the bottom of the page.

Thanks! We are aware of this problem and working on fixing it. Were you using a mobile browser, by chance?

Yes, on an iPad. Another random quote above! :D

Hi all,

We have rolled this feature back to fix bugs.

Thank you for all your reports!

Why not on top ?
 

At the bottom of a forum page I found the choice of FT Desktop or infinite scroll. Choosing here carries the choice over to any topic page.

Can someone, anyone, explain why that option can't be at the top of the page ?
Having a choice is nice. But why not make it easier ?

_Mych

For one thing, it doesn't stick. It's sort of useless IMO. Been discussed earlier in the thread. (I think it should stick, IB says it's hard to do. Maybe it's one of the things they will reconsider now that they rolled it back.)

You have to use the global (per user) options.

Unfortunately there's no way to have per-browser instance preferences.

-David

I saw the floating bar earlier but not currently (on desktop both times). I just double-checked that I'm not marked as opted out. Did it get turned off?

Personally, I found it useful but distracting. How about just having a floating "jump to top (or bottom)" button instead? Much less distracting and space-hogging, but almost as useful.

See post #96

Anything floating will be distracting. There's already a command bar at the bottom with the function you want -- labeled "Top".

But, I still want to know... Why they can't put the desktop option at the top of the page ? Why make it so you have to scroll to the bottom to choose ?

This is similar to what happens when accessing the site from my andriod tablet. The site automatcally decides to present the mobile style and the option of the desktop style is at the bottom of the page.

_Mych

Whether you put it at the top or the bottom or both, there's still the problem that this interacts poorly with infinite scroll. Did you mean to scroll to the next page, or were you trying to scroll just far enough to access the bar? Oops, you went one pixel too far, guess you wanted to load the next page LOL

Just don't make it the default when you roll it out again, if you want people to use it let them try it of their own free will. Simples.

When this feature was available I was using Chrome on a Windows machine (not mobile) and the back button would fill up with Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, etc as I infinite scrolled.

I would also HIGHLY recommend that any future rollout of such a feature be OPT IN.

I hadn't realized that there was infinite scroll in addition to floating the bar. That makes my suggestion rather meaningless, as there is no real "top" and "bottom" anymore.

If you end up turning off infinite scroll, though, it's a compromise you might want to consider.

Extremely distracting. And irritating.

For some reason, my opting out of infinite scroll reverted back to opt in overnight.

They just reintroduced the feature, so it makes sense that it would have reverted, go back into settings and check disable infinite scroll and save it. It should then be taken care of.

Personally, I don't find it very distracting. Just glitchy, especially at the bottom of the page.

I already did disable it again. Thanks.

Yeah, but they ignore your preferences for certain forums. It even says so in the setting. It shows low respect to their membership when I've clearly set a preference, but some forums (like the TSS subforums) ignore that preference and display infinite scroll anyway.

If you're going to allow the opt-out, make it universal, no exemptions.

I HATE infinite scroll. I rarely go to the trouble to complain, but this feature drove me to seek out this thread.
At least there seems to be an opt-out, but seriously who is looking for this? I can only imagine it is driven by the advertising side somehow

In the options checkbox to disable desktop auto-scroll I don't see anything that states it's left enabled on some forums. But I may well have missed it. Where are you seeing this?

It works poorly in low bandwidth environments, such as most Hotel's free wifi - you device freezes while loading more - disable, disable, disable.

Yeah, I don't see that either. Far as I know, if you opt out, you're out.

There are two places for infinite scroll. The one for the infinite scroll/normal skin says:

I do now see that the second infinite scroll, non-skin one is sticking opt-out, properly.

There seems to be a universal push to "refresh" every website with annoying javascript.
I suspect (1) this allows backdoors for more data mining; and (2) guarantees eternal employment for the IT folks.

Here's a new one. I have infinite scroll disabled but now it pops up regardless. Seriously - this is the worst implementation of anything on this website to date.

Same here. I have it disabled (from the first time) but "infinite scroll" bar/function still appears.
Also, when I change it from the drop menu on the bottom page bar and then move to the next page of a thread, the bar/function pops up again in the new page.