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Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin Registered User regular
edited June 2004 in Tube's Circus Of Bug Reports and User Issues
I think we need a better "Goto Page" system. I mean, we have a decent system now... if the thread is five pages long. I mainly frequent SE++, so I don't know how long threads in other forums get, but I say improvement in nessaccary. What I propose is that we have a "Jump to page" option. This would allow the user to input a page number, and then press "Go," or some sort of button... you could figure it out. After selecting "Go," the thread would automaticaly skip to that page. I'm not sure how hard this would be, but it doesn't seem too bad. I think it's a nice alternative to hitting "Next" a lot, especially if it is a NSF56K thread. Comments? Ideas? Is it feasable?

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    ObbiObbi Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    I've been wanting one of these forevar.

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    Salvation122Salvation122 Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Real Life Forums has that feature, but it's needed so rarely that it might as well not be there. I guess it could be useful on things like chat threads that grow exponentially, but in general, it seems kinda unneccessary.

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    ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    I have a phpBB hack in mind, I just want to stress test it to make sure it wont add to much overhead.

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    SmasherSmasher Starting to get dizzy Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Is multiplying by 25 really that hard?

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    ShiosaiShiosai Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    I was just thinking this myself as I was digging 20 pages back looking for a link in the anime thread. And before someone says it, sometimes Search just won't help.

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    matthias00matthias00 Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Yay!

    You do not know how many times that could have saved me VALUBLE minutes of my time!

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    ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Smasher wrote:
    Is multiplying by 25 really that hard?
    To be done correctly, yes.

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    OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    Personally I'd do it with a javascipr prompt. Ugly as shit but it's quick and dirty with basically no load on the server

    <a onClick="var url='urlWithoutPostNumber&post=';var page=prompt('What Page You Fucker?'); url = url+(page*25); document.location.href=url;">Go To Page</a>

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    ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Orthanc wrote:
    Personally I'd do it with a javascipr prompt. Ugly as shit but it's quick and dirty with basically no load on the server

    <a onClick="var url='urlWithoutPostNumber&post=';var page=prompt('What Page You Fucker?'); url = url+(page*25); document.location.href=url;">Go To Page</a>
    Thats not a bad idea. I was going to do a nice little drop down thing so it would look like this 
    1..2..3..4..5.. [ ## ] ..95..96..97..98..99..100

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    JHunzJHunz Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Orthanc wrote:
    Personally I'd do it with a javascipr prompt. Ugly as shit but it's quick and dirty with basically no load on the server

    <a onClick="var url='urlWithoutPostNumber&post=';var page=prompt('What Page You Fucker?'); url = url+((page-1)*25); document.location.href=url;">Go To Page</a>
    ?

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    RamiusRamius Joined: July 19, 2000 Administrator, ClubPA admin
    edited June 2004
    alphamonkey wrote:
    Orthanc wrote:
    Personally I'd do it with a javascipr prompt. Ugly as shit but it's quick and dirty with basically no load on the server

    <a onClick="var url='urlWithoutPostNumber&post=';var page=prompt('What Page You Fucker?'); url = url+(page*25); document.location.href=url;">Go To Page</a>
    Thats not a bad idea. I was going to do a nice little drop down thing so it would look like this 
    1..2..3..4..5.. [ ## ] ..95..96..97..98..99..100

    a dropdown with 100 items isn't really "nice".

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    LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    Ramius wrote:
    alphamonkey wrote:
    Orthanc wrote:
    Personally I'd do it with a javascipr prompt. Ugly as shit but it's quick and dirty with basically no load on the server

    <a onClick="var url='urlWithoutPostNumber&post=';var page=prompt('What Page You Fucker?'); url = url+(page*25); document.location.href=url;">Go To Page</a>
    Thats not a bad idea. I was going to do a nice little drop down thing so it would look like this 
    1..2..3..4..5.. [ ## ] ..95..96..97..98..99..100

    a dropdown with 100 items isn't really "nice".

    It's a bit better than having to change through the pages slowly, though...

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    StevenSteven Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    Not like you couldn't just tap '7' to get into the 70s. Pressing a number key a few times is still a lot quicker than going page by page.

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    OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    Ramius wrote:
    alphamonkey wrote:
    Orthanc wrote:
    Personally I'd do it with a javascipr prompt. Ugly as shit but it's quick and dirty with basically no load on the server

    <a onClick="var url='urlWithoutPostNumber&post=';var page=prompt('What Page You Fucker?'); url = url+(page*25); document.location.href=url;">Go To Page</a>
    Thats not a bad idea. I was going to do a nice little drop down thing so it would look like this 
    1..2..3..4..5.. [ ## ] ..95..96..97..98..99..100

    a dropdown with 100 items isn't really "nice".

    particularly not on shitty browsers *cough*IE*cough*, I've seen big drop downs lag on IE before.

    On a completly unrelated note, I think +/- 1 errors like that are probably one of the lagest sources of bugs.

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    LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    Um...a dropdown with a scroll bar when it gets larger? Is that not possible? :P

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    OrthancOrthanc Death Lite, Only 1 Calorie Off the end of the internet, just turn left.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2004
    Legacy wrote:
    Um...a dropdown with a scroll bar when it gets larger? Is that not possible? :P

    It's browser dependendant how it renders a drop down, most of them put a scroll. But I've still seen them lag in IE

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    ÄlphämönkëyÄlphämönkëy Registered User regular
    edited June 2004
    I never said I was done with the concept :P

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    WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    edited June 2004
    M2 was better. They just had all the numbers of pages in the thread shown, none of this pussy dotdotdot shit.

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    Johnny SmashJohnny Smash Tucson, AZRegistered User regular
    edited June 2004
    yeah man those were the days what the fuck

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