page selection

[kasman]

Title:
page selection

Area:
entries

Summary:
Instead of having to navigate by previous page/next page, it would be nice to be able to navigate by a page number. This would be handy particularly if you are considering deleting entries in bulk and don't want to get rid of the earlier entries.

Description:
Instead of having to navigate by previous page/next page, it would be nice to be able to navigate by a page number. This would be handy particularly if you are considering deleting entries in bulk and don't want to get rid of the earlier entries.

Poll #11689 page selection

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (15.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
11 (28.2%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (48.7%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (5.1%)

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Would this be from the journal view (like http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org ), from the single-entry view ( http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/1378835.html ), or somewhere else?

[msilverstar]

I really like this idea, especially for reading communities. It gives context to the distance you are going back.

There are issues though. And what happens to the pagination when there's a new entry, or on a busy comm, multiple? I think Tumblr solves this by giving the "page #" link a unique identifier, so each page always starts at a specific entry.

[solitarywalker]

You can get the functionality you're looking for by appending ?skip=## to the URL, where ## is the entry number. If you want page 5 and one page shows 20 entries, ?skip=80 e.g.

Seperate links for every page number would get pretty ridiculous in some cases. Links to just a few nearby pages would be alright, but this should certainly not replace Next/Previous, which I'd expect to be more generally useful.

[swaldman]

To perhaps widen the discussion slightly,

Which would be more useful - "jump to page" or "jump to date"?

[denise]

There already is a "reading page by date" feature for paid accounts, just to note; it's not very discoverable (and we've been trying to figure out a good and usable way to make it more so) and it can be a bit touchy in terms of stuff getting left out of the views due to backend magic, but it does exist. :)

[swaldman]

Ah! I did not know this (thus emphasising your point about discoverability ;-))

(is discoverability a word? It should be.)