# 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: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-to-reconsider-infinite-scroll/401984/23 "2026-05-01T22:34:02Z")

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I was going to write a response stating that I really don’t think Discourse meets the requirements for an “addictive social media platform” only because it has a so-called “infinite scroll” feature

but then I decided that I am not a lawyer and I would be better off putting my technical skills to work.

Here is a (quite hacky) theme component that intercepts the automatic “load more” functionality. It inserts a button and it requires the user to press the button before it loads more (topics / posts / users / groups / whatever you were looking at).

Topic → [Load More Button](https://meta.discourse.org/t/load-more-button/402049)  
Preview → [https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/RGJ/load-more-button](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/RGJ/load-more-button)  
Repo → [GitHub - communiteq/discourse-tc-load-more-button · GitHub](https://github.com/communiteq/discourse-tc-load-more-button)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/5/0/350457d8da7e58035cd9e63744f65ab691b13e2c.png)

So there you have it, that law only applies to loading additional media “without any manual input from a covered user”. This theme component adds manual input, so the law does not apply.

End of discussion 👍

My kids are still not wearing a bike helmet either.

I don’t think it would be very hard to build this into core behind a site setting.

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