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prawks on Feb 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?

The difference is that Discourse does it on a per-item basis, Google's on a per-page. A small implementation detail.

navs on Feb 28, 2014 [–]

Well with discourse you want to go to a very specific comment in the thread so doing it per item is best. But that's not for every use case.

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