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User Experience Problem - Continuous Scroll aka. Lazy Loading and Dynamic Data

Continuous Scroll is a great solution for those who are looking for alternatives for the standard pagination.  Now sometimes, one may come across a question - "Will implementing Continuous Scroll be helpful when the data is huge & dynamic?" The straightforward answer is NO! for certain cases. Continuous Scroll with Lazyloading is good. But for certain cases, it is advisable to implement some add-on measures or use the Pagination pattern. Let's consider an easy example. You are the network admin of a big enterprise whose 1000 employees have individual laptops. Imagine you are looking at a web user interface which shows the status of all active Laptops at any point of time. The whole UI gets refreshed every 5 mins. This means once is 5 mins, each record will refresh with a new value. Assume you are looking at 563-rd information, which shows IP 192.168.5.22 is online and active. It also belongs to the user called JOHN DOE and it is running some services like Apa