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Option to "live scroll" vs. see number of new posts #145

Open ericlevin opened 9 years ago

ericlevin commented 9 years ago

Would love to give, on a user-by-user basis, the ability to see updates live scrolling or use the default "x new posts" behavior.

hannesmannerheim commented 9 years ago

adding new posts "live" can sound like a good idea, but it introduces some issues. when being scrolled down in the feed, you will "miss" when clicking stuff, because at the same time something is added in the top and the element you intended to click moves.

this could be solved by changing the scroll position when adding stuff in the top, but that introduces the same issue when clicking something in the left margin.

so, to conclude, to make that feature useful and not just very annoying, we would need to change the whole design, maybe do away with the left margin completely. but that is not something i want at this time, since i want to keep the similarity with twitter.

ericlevin commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the reply. I get the concern around missing stuff which is why I would make this a per-user option. I get that you would have to redesign quite a bit. Curious if there are others that want this. I think it highlights the differences between users who prefer to use twitter and those who opted for tweetdeck (or similar "add on" services to twitter).

ghost commented 9 years ago

This would great. +1

ghost commented 9 years ago

any update on this?

hannesmannerheim commented 9 years ago

not a priority