Bonjour à toutes et à tous, Nous venons de migrer 52 000 discussions de notre ancien forum (ServiceNow) vers Discourse. Tout s’est bien passé, mais nous buttons sur un point d’ergonomie : le scroll infini de la page d’accueil rend notre footer totalement inaccessible. Pour améliorer l’expérience u…

[image] FabienL: Do you know if such a feature is planned in the official Discourse roadmap? I can answer this one: no, not at all. Infinite scroll on the topiclist is not something we’re planning to manoeuvre around. There are lots of topics about that subject already to be found on this sit…

In addition to the options Charlie suggested, it may also be sufficient to configure the homepage so that it displays categories rather than the latest topics. That list isn’t infinite. The homepage is defined by the first element in the top_menu site setting.

And keeping mind @Moin suggestion, OP could remember that users can change that functionality and start using /latest — and again footer is missing. Meaning that design should plan using way where footer is not that important. The factoid is users aren’t using footer that often. More admins like id…

I’ve made use of this Theme Component to achieve exactly what you need: [image] Easy Responsive Footer Theme component discourse2 Summary Easy Responsive Footer will allow you to build a fully-responsive footer using nothing but plain text. eyeglasses …

Is the footer the component adds visible on pages like /latest with infinite scrolling? When I tried it it was not, so I am curious what customizations you have added that made you suggest it as a solution for the infinite scrolling problem.

[image] Moin: Is the footer the component adds visible on pages like /latest with infinite scrolling? no it is not visible

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[image] chapoi: Infinite scroll on the topiclist is not something we’re planning to manoeuvre around. There are lots of topics about that subject already to be found on this site. This is just terribly irresponsible. Given how central we now know that infinite scroll is the addictive behavior…

[image] mcmcclur: Given how central we now know that infinite scroll is the addictive behavior of social media Worth separating the mechanism from the harm here. The research on addictive social media design points to algorithmic curation, variable-reward feeds, and engagement optimisation, n…

[image] chapoi: The research on addictive social media design points to algorithmic curation, variable-reward feeds, and engagement optimisation, not infinite scroll as a standalone feature. Discourse doesn’t have any of that. Infinite scroll (or, more generally, bottomlessness) is consistent…

Infinite scroll on the homepage - Implementing pagination or a 'Show more' button

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nathank (Nathan Kershaw) April 30, 2026, 11:22am 5

I’ve made use of this Theme Component to achieve exactly what you need:

Topic		Replies	Views
Disable unlimited loading of the topic list Support	7	200	July 25, 2024
Page numbers? Support	20	515	March 1, 2026
Is pagination impossible or just hard? Development	21	3012	December 23, 2024
Being unable to reach the footer due to infinite scroll is an Accessibility failure Support	7	1335	September 13, 2021
Infinite scrolling on homepage Support	4	555	December 11, 2023

Infinite scroll on the homepage - Implementing pagination or a 'Show more' button

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