About topic pages...

N2-0 Night · Gnihtemos od thgim I... Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 992

How about a jump function, so that we can just jump to certain pages. For example, I wanted to go to page 12 and I start at page 20, this is what I see below:

Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 ... 19, 20, 21 ... 27, 28, 29 Next

To get to page 12, I have to click on some more links (by clicking Previous lots of times, start on Page 3 then work my way up, etc.). If we can jump to certain pages, it could save some time... Am I making sense here...?

I believe nobody has suggested this before. If someone already did, then just ignore this. It's just a suggestion :] .
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Midnight · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:

I like that too, but I think that is hard coded into the forum. Many other similarly coded forums do not have such a feature.
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Elementalman.EXE · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:

I was thinking about this earlier. It could be like

Go To Page [12] [Go!]
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Raijin · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 6:42 pm Post subject:

You can compromise a bit by guessing which number reply is the one you're looking for and replace that number in the URL. I don't think you can get a 404 that way unless you pick a number greater than the amount of replies in that thread.

Elementalman.EXE · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject:

yes, but that would reguire a memory

I don't really see why people use that arguement. It requires keeping track of alot of topic tracking. Or alot of one guessing
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Midnight · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

Extending on Raijin's idea:

If you know the page you want to go, subtract one, then multiply by twenty. Replace the last number in the url (that is close to "start=") with the number you calculated. Make sure that when you start, you start anywhere but the first page of the thread.

That should work.
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