Would someone please explain how Discourse does infinite scrolling? It has already been described to me by devs that to disable it is extremely difficult and would take months of danger-prone changes to so, but I’m not asking anyone to do this. I’m just trying to get an understanding of the innard…

As you know, it is very complex. More complex than a single topic or even several topics could cover adequately. To start off a discussion, how about starting with what you have figured out so far?

The easy (and not advisable) way to disable it is to override the handlebars templates where it exists and leave out the load-more pieces. That would break it in that specific location.

I’ve gathered so far that if Javascript is turned off, then pagination is turned on by something in the server-side code. I intend to identify what code produces that and investigate how to selectively activate it.

I can help here: See: [image] Contributing to Discourse development Contributing bookmark This guide is designed for those who wish to contribute to the Discourse open-source project, detailing the setup and conventions necessary for effective collaboration. …

Trying to understand how infinite scrolling works in Discourse

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Mittineague (Mittineague) February 21, 2019, 4:12am 6

The files in this folder may be some help
discourse/app/views/topics at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub

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