I sure do love scrolling from the top to find where I was after my phone randomly decides to refresh the page when I'm 200 items down :yes-honey-left:
Deliberate design choice. Infinite scroll keeps people engaged longer. If the page refreshes and you have to scroll again they're still throwing ads in front of you which is the only thing these companies care about in the end.
Reddit and all other social media apps have done this because it keeps people scrolling longer and seeing more content and therefore ads.
Old Reddit puts the ads at the top, where they can easily be ignored by experienced users. With the endless scroll, they intentionally make it difficult to distinguish from content.
I deploy careful stratagems to load more comments on the megathread without losing my place on the page.
Agreed, i have the PWA installed on my phone and everytime i click a post and go back to home page, the feed refreshes and re-sorts completely, so I don't know where I am. SPAs were a mistake!
