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It’s not necessarily lazy. If I want to go back to a particular post I saw on page 1 when I’m on page 2, but it was knocked off the front page, how would I find it? It’s no longer on page 1, so back would miss it. I’d have to go to 1 and then back again to 2 to find a post that moved.

It gets even more complicated when the algorithm also changes post order.

Sometimes simple with minor inconvenience is the best option.

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hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In an endlessly scrolling implementation, you’d just scroll up.

Without endless scrolling, it could behave as follows:

Moving back to page 1 takes the user to where they were on page 1 when they navigated away, with the same items visible

When automatically fetching new posts, either expand the page (pushing nothing off) or make it visually clear that pages will be pushed to the next page. Or just don’t fetch new posts automatically, and only reset the first / last post of a page if the user clicks Refresh.
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