Pagination vs Infinite Scroll

Users debate the use of traditional pagination versus infinite scrolling or single long pages in web interfaces, often preferring pagination for easier navigation, searchability, and scalability, while complaining about poor implementations or excessive page counts.

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Sample Comments

admn2 Nov 9, 2021 View on HN

Some actual pagination would be great (instead of just next / previous having page numbers)

rnestler Nov 20, 2022 View on HN

Couldn't they just add paging?

torgoguys Dec 21, 2019 View on HN

Please give me paged results instead of infinite scroll.

zhs Jun 26, 2016 View on HN

I guess they never quite solved pagination.

DanielStraight Sep 6, 2009 View on HN

Cool stuff, but I can't take paging through 11 pages. Pagination is evil.

okasaki Jun 1, 2025 View on HN

Reinventing pagination?page=3&size=100

azov Mar 28, 2012 View on HN

Indeed. Pagination is one of those things not broken. Please don't fix it!

catpower Dec 2, 2017 View on HN

When did this page start being paginated, it makes it hard to Ctrl-f find things?

38 Jul 14, 2023 View on HN

if you cannot load the whole page for any reason, that's a failure of design. use pagination, that has existed since the 90s.

novia Dec 27, 2020 View on HN

I've been hitting paginated page limits. Why even bother to offer a paginated version if you can't grab an arbitrary page?