# Unfortunately I had to pull the plug

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unfortunately-i-had-to-pull-the-plug/117508
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 12, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unfortunately-i-had-to-pull-the-plug/117508 "2019-05-12T13:41:22Z")
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### Author: ![orangeandblack5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@orangeandblack5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orangeandblack5)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unfortunately-i-had-to-pull-the-plug/117508/2 "2019-05-12T13:58:04Z")

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> [@eesty](#):
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> A large portion of my user base did not like infinite scrolling. To me it makes sense, but the types of topics on my forum may go on for up to 20,000 posts. I guess you can’t teach on old dog new tricks.

Hard relate, infinite scrolling is not good for our usage either. Pages would be a welcome feature, yet as of last time I checked in the devs seem staunchly against it.

As far as I’m concerned, drawing in users that clearly want it is worth the dev time. But hey, I don’t have their statistics.

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