Pagination good practice
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It's been a while since we've had some proper conversation about pagination (like, two weeks or something)!
Do you guys feel anything is missing on that list?
Cheers
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Well... I'm not responding to this until this thread reaches at least 2 pages.
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Pfft. That article is from 2007. Jeff's vision is for the next 10 years! Stop being so closed-minded!
...I feel like I just channeled the spirit of @nagesh while I wrote that.
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Do you guys feel anything is missing on that list?
Yes. Put the navigation widget where the user would expect it to be: at the end of the content and optionally at the top too.(Although you might argue that this is a subcase of Mistake #1 or #2.)
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Brilliant comment!
I love the part where they say that suggesting a "go to page" text input is a way to compensate over the lack of good pagination system.
That's totally the worst thing about the post count green thingie (what's it even called?) on Discourse: going to the beginning of a topic takes two click and a reloading on the DOM-removed elements…
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Also, to go to a specific post, I have to manually delete the content of the number box because the text isn't selected to allow easy overwriting. Additionally, it puts the cursor before the first digit, which is about the most annoying place you could put it.
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That's because the normal behaviour of a browser is not to autoselect input fields' content on focus. You wouldn't expect a web software to alter a browser's default behaviour, now, or would you?!
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That's because the normal behaviour of a browser is not to autoselect input fields' content on focus.
I believe that the cursor normally goes to the end of the field though.
You wouldn't expect a web software to alter a browser's default behaviour, now, or would you?!
You're right, I sometimes forget how religiously Discourse abides by web best practices and standards.
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I believe that the cursor normally goes to the end of the field though.
Proof this is obviously a feature!
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Woo, more consistency! If I press # to access the post number box, the text is selected ready for overtyping.
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That's enormously discoverable.
In fairness, I found it in the Keyboard Shortcuts list, which is accessible from the hamburger menu.
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Has that always been there?
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No, the menu item is new...ish.
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accessible from the hamburger menu
Fucking software with hamburgers and toasters. It's like they came up with those names just to make me hungry.
I've never liked the name toaster (for the pop ups). Toasters don't pop up, toast does, so the name doesn't even make sense. I realise that toast doesn't pop up on it's own though, it requires being in a toaster beforehand, which just adds more reason to the fact that it's a FUCKING TERRIBLE NAME.
Filed under: You can tell it's nearly lunch time
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My only fear is that, one day, they will actually make the software equivalent of Talkie Toaster...
I have my polo mallet at the ready.
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My only fear is that, one day, they will actually make the software equivalent of Talkie Toaster...
I have my polo mallet at the ready.
Would you like some toast?
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Please. I'll have two pages.
*ding* (out pops two freshly toasted slices of bread)
would you like some more toast?
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*ding* (out pops two freshly toasted slices of bread)
would you like some more toast?
Fly me to the moon...
Filed under: Confusion level rising...
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*ding* (out pops two freshly toasted slices of bread)
would you like some more toast?
Yes, but the pages you gave to me scolded me for not letting others eat toast. Maybe I should let others participate more.
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Discourse: going to the beginning of a topic takes two click and a reloading on the DOM-removed elements…
Or you could hit home because everyone loves navigating the web as if they're using VIM or Lynx.
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I've never liked the name toaster (for the pop ups). Toasters don't pop up, toast does, so the name doesn't even make sense. I realise that toast doesn't pop up on it's own though, it requires being in a toaster beforehand, which just adds more reason to the fact that it's a FUCKING TERRIBLE NAME.
Does that make Dicsourse the toaster, and all the crappy popups are the toast?
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I've never liked the name toaster (for the pop ups). Toasters don't pop up, toast does, so the name doesn't even make sense. I realise that toast doesn't pop up on it's own though, it requires being in a toaster beforehand, which just adds more reason to the fact that it's a FUCKING TERRIBLE NAME.
But... nobody calls them that but you. They're called "toast notifications", which I agree is a terrible name, but I've never heard anybody say "toaster notifications".
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Yes, but the pages you gave to me scolded me for not letting others eat toast. Maybe I should let others participate more.
How about a muffin? Or are you a waffle person?
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Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie's the name, toasting's the game. Anyone like any toast?
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Oh yay now this is the type of forum where people will take a mildly entertaining sitcom from the early 90s and just then keep flogging it in post after post after post, because you know what's funny? Repeating jokes ad nauseum! I love this type of forum, and by love I mean fuck you.
Let's do Wings next. Remember the episode where Joe burned down the house while having sex? HA HA HA Lowell was the best, he was like a mechanic but kind of ditzy.
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Firstly, the broadcast started in 1988 of Red Dwarf, so you're wrong on that score.
Secondly, it's either that or Monty Python quotes because I'm not that funny and you complained about those so you can fuck right off when I try to amuse people with things (badly) and you're still not fucking satisfied. I'm not like you, I can't be spontaneously witty or eternally bad-tempered where it's funny anyway.
But then again I feel like I'm more human than you are so get over yourself already.
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Secondly, it's either that or Monty Python quotes because I'm not that funny and you complained about those so you can fuck right off when I try to amuse people with things (badly) and you're still not fucking satisfied. I'm not like you, I can't be spontaneously witty or eternally bad-tempered where it's funny anyway.
You could just not post.
But then again I feel like I'm more human than you are so get over yourself already.
What is the implication of this?
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This might actually be a really easy hack to fix with a javascript function, I just did it this weekend in about 5 minutes and I'm terrible with javascript. I'll post a feature request on meta.d later.
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If we name it toast at least it will still be accurate, it always falls on its face.
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You need at least 3 or 4 pasta in a row for the good toasters.
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But... nobody calls them that but you. They're called "toast notifications", which I agree is a terrible name, but I've never heard anybody say "toaster notifications".
I'll just leave this here...
WHY IS THIS POPPING UP LIKE 47 TOASTERS EVERY TIME I TYPE A POST HOLY FUCK GO AWAY!!!
Filed under: along with this, this, and this
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Because one heart container is not enough.
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I'll just leave this here...
Those who cannot learn blakeyrat's posting history....are probably blakeyrat.
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OH NO ARANTOR HAS DETECTED BLAKEYBOT IS NOT HUMAN AND DOCTORJONES HAS DETECTED INCONSISTENCIES IN BLAKEYBOT POSTING HISTORY
INVASION MUST BE CANCELLED
GREAT COMMANDER HOW COULD WE HAVE ANTICIPATED THE HUMAN RACE COULD HAVE HAD SUCH HEROES, ONE WHO APPARENTLY KEEPS TRACK OF WHO IS HUMAN OR NOT IN HIS HEAD IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYBODY IS HUMAN AND ONE WHO APPARENTLY MEMORIZES POSTING HISTORY BACK MONTHS AND MONTHS SO HE CAN POINT OUT HYPOCRISY
INSTEAD OF INFILTRATION, RECOMMEND INCINERATION
<piss>
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Nothing personal Blakey. I was just looking for where I'd heard them referred to as toasters, it just so happened that the first usage on the forum was you.
Filed under: I actually found the Discourse search useful for a change, I think I might be going crazy
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OH NO ARANTOR HAS DETECTED BLAKEYBOT IS NOT HUMAN AND DOCTORJONES HAS DETECTED INCONSISTENCIES IN BLAKEYBOT POSTING HISTORY
INVASION MUST BE CANCELLED
GREAT COMMANDER HOW COULD WE HAVE ANTICIPATED THE HUMAN RACE COULD HAVE HAD SUCH HEROES, ONE WHO APPARENTLY KEEPS TRACK OF WHO IS HUMAN OR NOT IN HIS HEAD IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYBODY IS HUMAN AND ONE WHO APPARENTLY MEMORIZES POSTING HISTORY BACK MONTHS AND MONTHS SO HE CAN POINT OUT HYPOCRISY
INSTEAD OF INFILTRATION, RECOMMEND INCINERATION
ed for comedy value, not in agreement with principles.
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Oh man, if you imagine a Dalek reading the post it adds a whole new dimension to it!
Filed under: genius!
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Oh man, if you imagine a Dalek reading the post it adds a whole new dimension to it!
Yeah! It makes an already-lame joke but lame and hackneyed!
Your sense for comedy is unerring.
EDIT: There is only one funny skit involving Daleks, and it is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q
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Oh man, if you imagine a Dalek reading the post it adds a whole new dimension to it!
That was how I read his post
INSTEAD OF INFILTRATION, RECOMMEND EXTERMINATE
DWTFY
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if you imagine a Dalek reading the post it adds a whole new dimension to it!
Especially if the Dalek wants some toast. Or a bagel; they'd fit better over the exterminator than a piece of toast.
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EXPLAIN!
File Under: Got nothin else to set, but I have a minimum number of characters to fill.
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Well, an upside-down toaster in space would pop up.
Filed under: SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Only for a certain definition of "up".
Filed Under: See you in the battle room
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Nah, you're wrong. It's not the forum. It's a certain type of person who mistakenly considers that learning somebody else's humour by rote and repeating it ad nauseum somehow makes them funny.
I was going to say "at least it's not fucking Monty Python", but then I saw
@Arantor said:it's either that or Monty Python quotes
@arantor - Don't. Just don't.Top marks for the Milligan link, by the way, the man was a comedy genius. Although if somebody now starts quoting the Goon Show I'll blow a fucking gasket.