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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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.
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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You do not know how many times that could have saved me VALUBLE minutes of my time!
<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>
a dropdown with 100 items isn't really "nice".
It's a bit better than having to change through the pages slowly, though...
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.
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