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date    = "2023-05-03T00:27:53+00:00"
lastmod = "2023-05-03T00:27:54+00:00"
tags    = [ "musings" ]
author  = "tdro"
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So, I just realized that
[infinite scrolling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrolling#Infinite_scrolling)
is a two birds, one stone kinda thing. Basically; your servers do almost
nothing, while the clients toil your complexity (and their time) on the server's
behalf.

It's a bad all--you--can--eat buffet in computer algorithmic form. The rewards?
Architectural flexibility + implicit user retention. I recently saw someone
scrolling a YouTube channel all the way to the end just to find the first video.
That's the server's job... and a lot of wasted user time.