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The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (www.politico.eu)

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BRUSSELS — Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way.

The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world’s most popular apps.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

It’s also used in healthier ways, like search results, chat logs, and so on.

That's an excellent point. Viewing a log file over the web, particularly when it's still growing, absolutely needs infinite scrolling. The Old Way is UX poison.

Is RedHat the company in on this? Is it because they can't figure out how to scroll text well in their AAP/Tower/whatever platform and are annoyed with people chanting YOU HAD ONE JOB at them? (no need to look it up -- that entire Tower product and the tech behind it would be hot garbage 20 years ago and is hot garbage now, so I'm just dunking on them)