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QOTD: Why doesn't the feed scroll forever? Why do I have to click to continue?
Short answer: Because we don't think it should.
A lot of modern social media is built around one goal: keep you scrolling for as long as possible. Infinite feeds remove natural stopping points. The next post is always right there. Then another. And another. Eventually, you've spent forty minutes consuming things you didn't actually come looking for. With the overuse of social media and engagement farming techniques showing new harm by the day, we didn't want to be involved in that in any way.
That's not the experience we want to build here. We want a safe space for our members.
Our feed has an endpoint on purpose. It gives you a natural place to stop, take a breath, and decide whether you actually want to keep exploring. If you do, the content isn't going anywhere. You can visit another page, search, follow writers and characters, explore profiles, or simply come back later.
We want you here because you're enjoying yourself, writing, reading, connecting, and creating. Not because the website successfully tricked your brain into forgetting what time it is. Your attention is yours. We'd rather respect it than engineer ways to capture as much of it as possible.