Dear folks,

Thanks a lot for adding this idea and for your comments!

We do understand how needed this option is for you and I'm truly sorry that we don't support it yet.

We've tried to talk this option through, however, it did appear to be more complicated than we expected. To release the lazy load function, we'll have to implement a major update for the whole widget which is a very complex task.

We're not going to give up on this idea of course, and we will definitely keep trying to find maybe other ways to make this option real. But unfortunately, we cannot promise that this will be done in near future.

I'm so very sorry to bring such news, and I do believe we will be able to have this option released sooner.

Thank you so much for your understanding! 🙏🏻

43 at the moment, and still "under consideration". It has been 1.5 years now, since this was posted.

Lazysizes with unveilhooks is a good option for this. However there should be a native solution.

It can be done like this with plain JavaScript(ES6 format) and a little help of jQuery (you could also rewrite this without using jQuery):

let instagramFeedScrollDistance;

let instagramLoaded = false;

function lazyLoadInstagramFeed() {

let scrollDistance = $(window).scrollTop();

let windowHeight = $(window).height();

if ((scrollDistance >= (instagramFeedScrollDistance - windowHeight)) && !instagramLoaded) {

let instagramScript = $.getScript('//apps.elfsight.com/p/platform.js');

instagramLoaded = true;

}

}

$(() => {

const feed = $('.class-with-your-app-id');

if (feed.length) {

instagramFeedScrollDistance = feed.offset().top;

instagramLoaded = false;

$(window).on('scroll', lazyLoadInstagramFeed);

lazyLoadInstagramFeed();

}

});

A native approach with IntersectionObserver would be even better, but isn't suppported in IE.

Hi guys,

I managed to workaround this using the lazysizes JS library and their unveilhooks extension

https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes

https://github.com/aFarkas/lazysizes/blob/gh-pages/plugins/unveilhooks/ls.unveilhooks.js

<div class="lazyload" data-script="link-to-elfsight-widget.js"></div>