Comment by geuis

5 days ago

It sounds cool, but for usability its not great. Think about how reddit recalculates the results order as you're paging through, and you see items from the previous page show up on the next. Now imagine that happening in realtime. Maybe there's a link you want to read, but you get pulled away for 10 minutes. By the time you get back the link is higher or lower, or may be completely missing.

As a side feature, that would be neat though.

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1zael  5 days ago

That is a good point, however there are design solutions around it. For example: - Poll every X seconds instead of real-time - Enable user to toggle real-time mode - Load new posts in with a "+" button at the top to fetch the latest posts (like Twitter)

  • 1718627440  4 days ago

    That's a good idea. Maybe bind that to a key (what about Ctrl-R). And maybe you can put this feature into UAs, since it would be useful for more websites.