# Time to reconsider infinite scroll?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-reconsider-infinite-scroll/401984
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 30, 2026, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-reconsider-infinite-scroll/401984 "2026-04-30T13:48:31Z")
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### Author: ![ted](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ted/32/283882_2.png) [@ted](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ted)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2026, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-reconsider-infinite-scroll/401984/11 "2026-05-01T06:53:29Z")

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In the context of Discourse, “infinite scroll” is really just an implementation detail that helps mostly with performance. Consider this: given you have a page with a few hundred topics/posts, the app could in theory just chuck all of them onto the page, which would technically just be a very big page rather than “infinite scroll”, but in spirit they’re the same thing.

Edit: But maybe a lower-effort way to offset this would be to offer a site setting that bounds how many topics you have in `Latest`, `Hot`, etc.

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