At the bottom of each main page here at the monastary, you have (1-15) of 300, indicating that only a small number of nodes are shown compared to what is available. To get to the later nodes, one must click on the 'Next entries-->' link ... however, if one wants to get to the last page, or even near the middle, one must repeatedly click this. Some sort of better user interface would be desireable, at least to releive some annoyance at this. For possible suggestions, if any are needed, see this site for a good example (notice at both the top and the bottom you see 'Page 1 of 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 > Last »'). This helps occasionally, especially when trying to view older threads or just get a feel for the place. Just a friendly suggestion ...
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Re: Better implementation for 'Next entries -->'?
by QM (Parson) on May 07, 2004 at 23:44 UTC
    Are you speaking of the Super Search results? Otherwise, I must be missing something, because I don't have "next" on any other nodes. [Maybe I turned it off?]

    For Super Search, it doesn't return all of the results at once, to reduce the load on the database.

    -QM
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    Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

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      Look at the bottom of this page, for example. The main pages for the sections SOPW, PM Discussion, etc. all have this problem. Relatively simple to fix, I imagine. Just a matter of putting the link to it (right now I can fudge around it by manually changing the URL after guessing what needed to be modified, so it can't be too difficult).
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        Ah, OK. I never read them that way. I suppose if I wasn't so obsessive, and didn't check in once a day or so, and didn't read through [most of] the new posts, I might read them a section at a time.

        If I'm trying to catch up on the SOPW, jumping to page 11421 of 11427 would be helpful. But wouldn't those links change over time, and have to be computed [somewhat] dynamically? Perhaps once a day or better?

        Maybe computing them with higher page numbers for higher dates would solve it. Then the only artifact might be the opening page with only 1 entry. I'd be OK with that, given the improved functionality of page links, and the reduced load on the server/database.

        -QM
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        Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

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