How to access wiki when infinite scroll is turned on
Mar 15, 2022 | 9:16 am
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How to access wiki when infinite scroll is turned on
Unlike so many long-time FTers, I actually don't mind infinite scroll and have left it on. But the implementation has long seemed buggy to me. The one thing I struggle with is when I'm in a multi-page thread that also has a wiki and I try to scroll up to access the wiki--it briefly appears but then is replaced by more posts as the previous "page" loads.
Any tips for this...or anything the tech team can do to somehow make this more manageable?
Any tips for this...or anything the tech team can do to somehow make this more manageable?
Mar 15, 2022 | 9:52 pm
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This is a long-standing issue on mobile; the only workaround I know of is to use << to go to the first page in the thread so that infinite scroll has nowhere to go.
It creates a poor user experience, because many long-running threads have useful knowledge/wisdom/etc. that has been distilled into a wiki to make it easy for newcomers to quickly orient themselves or learn the high points of whatever the topic is, but since people are frequently on mobile devices these days, it seems like many newer FTers have no ideas wikis even exist (much less how to defeat the infinite scroll problem), and consequently threads get filled with the same repetitive questions being asked over and over again.
It creates a poor user experience, because many long-running threads have useful knowledge/wisdom/etc. that has been distilled into a wiki to make it easy for newcomers to quickly orient themselves or learn the high points of whatever the topic is, but since people are frequently on mobile devices these days, it seems like many newer FTers have no ideas wikis even exist (much less how to defeat the infinite scroll problem), and consequently threads get filled with the same repetitive questions being asked over and over again.