What's the deal about the infinte scroll? Everytime I have to use it, it feels very unpleasant. The problem is the scrollbar which suddenly does not accurately hint the position of the document I'm in.
A solution might be to change the scrollbar hinting from absolute to relative. A simple ∞ added below the "scroll down button" on the scrollbar might just fix this.
That's where inifinite scroll is a good idea. Infinite scroll is usually correctly applied to datasets where it is unknown how many items the dataset consists of. E.g. google images, tweets, et cetera.
We already have what you want, it's called a scrollbar ;).
A solution might be to change the scrollbar hinting from absolute to relative. A simple ∞ added below the "scroll down button" on the scrollbar might just fix this.