API feature that allows for infinite scrolling on front page. Pagination for apis.roblox.com/explore-api/v1/get-sort-content

Hello, there is currently a problem with looking through experiences on the front page (Charts) and that is that only 100 experiences are displayed on each category. Roblox advertises itself of having million of experiences ready to be played yet only 100 games per category on the front page are only present. This is very discouraging for Roblox developers that do not have a game that’s in the top 100 of games in a category as it cannot reach all games.

This problem was brought up on November 2022 in this post but was quickly resolved.

However due to API changes and deprecation of older apis, I believe this issue is now back. A new api update was announced in this post where the older feature gets deprecated. While this may be good, it did remove the infinite scrolling by limiting experiences to 100 per SortId.
Deprecation announcement: Official List of Deprecated Web Endpoints - #59 by donutsalads

A simple solution to this issue would be to add pagination with the limit going up to a fair 200 pages per 100 experiences (The more the better.). The link that I want added for pagination to be added to are these:
https://apis.roblox.com/explore-api/v1/get-sort-content
https://apis.roblox.com/explore-api/v1/get-sorts

This would allow for infinite scrolling if this were to be implemented.

Why I want this feature added:

I have a utility experience that looks through Roblox’s api to suggest games based on a preset list and conditions. Currently I am trying to add a feature where it’ll look for games with a recent release date with a high player count. I need my web servers to process through 10000 Place ids to determine which experiences would be good to recommend.

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