I do not have infinite scrolling on any feed pages, but I thought that was one of the new features. I see no options in the settings for it either. On post pages where there are a lot of comments I do see it autoloading more as I scroll down, but not on feeds, there I still have the buttons prev / next.
I have deleted my cookies, logged out and back in, tried different browsers, disabled all extensions and scripts, but nothing changes.
I am on a linux desktop, if that matters. Any help would be appreciated. I assume I am missing something simple, but what?
I guess you are using lemmy-ui, and want to scroll infinitely in the home page. Right?
If so, you may required to use another frontend or apps to do this. The official/default fronend, lemmy-ui, doesn’t support this in the home page.
Infinite scrolling works when scrolling comments in post.
You can find the open issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/878
OK, thanks for the info and the link. That explains it.
I could already get infinite scrolling on feed pages by using old.lemmy but there are no userscripts available for it that add keyboard navigation support that I know of, and using the mouse regularly is out of the question for me due to a physical handicap.
I had a look at the issue page and it seems to boil down to the fact that because one dev feels it could be psychologically harmful to some to offer autoscroll nobody should have such a choice built-in. I guess I have to wait on someone to add this functionality to a userscript, like the missing keyboard navigation support, which I also require.
I know I am probably a rare edge-case, but I really wish people wouldn’t make blanket assumptions as to why someone would want such a feature or how they use the service/product.
Judging other people by your standards is lame and narrow-minded, and disabled people already get the short end of the stick at practically every turn.
Be better, Lemmy!
/end rant
Hey friend! I have a userscript for keyboard navigation for lemmy https://github.com/vmavromatis/Lemmy-keyboard-navigation. I just started a branch to support old lemmy as well. Contributions welcome!
Hi, thanks for responding, I appreciate it, AND, I am already using your userscript! Haha, thanks so much!!
Oh an existing user in the wild! Glad for it. Let me know if you have any feedback btw, it’s under constant development.
Hope the devs hear your demand!
Thank you!
I don’t think you can get infinite scrolling if you’re just accessing lemmy.world directly through a browser.
Maybe you saw the feature info on the announcement about being able to Alexandrite as a frontend? If you go here and log in again, you’ll see infinite scrolling.
Thank you for replying. See my other reply here in this thread for more info if you like.
Alexandrite looks nice, but it also lacks keyboard navigation support as far as I know, so it is out of the question for me.
old.lemmy.world has an option for infinite scrolling. I’m enjoying it as we speak!
Yes, thank you. Unfortunately there are not yet any userscripts for keyboard navigation compatible with old.lemmy that I know of.
