Greatest respect for the admins @ CP and this is not in anyway a complaint or to be taken as dissatisfaction ...
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And I suppose I could have done my homework first instead of soliciting the comments of the EXPERTS before putting this, my neck, on the block to see if this "topic" is not indeed a well rounded discussion already ... and from that draw the actual attention I wish to bring here, and thereby itch my own rub, but I'd like to suggest that somehow, some way the format disposed by the server as a webpage of Questions tagged by the user's choice and given some sort of the kind offered (unanswered|active|new\top rated), where indicative of the "Page 1 of 21" (lower left) followed by the first ten page links (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10), and then immediately to the lower right where both "First dot Prev dot Next" become instrumental in switching to the next fetchable set in the 21 total ... the returned set for "Next" actually be 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. and 20; not page "2" of "21". For example here: Quick Answers[^] After all, isn't the lower right hand apellative of "Next" refering to the next set of ten found items tagged as what the user wishes to narrow his list of possible entries by using a filter? I could post an image of what happens when I pick "Next" at this first filtering and what you would see in that image is the "Page 2 of 21" message that would be propagated by a mouseclick on "2". And I could spell out the word "REDUNDANCY" in Photoshop, copy and paste that image for further effect but I think anyone who is unalienably amenable to comments, agent of CP or no, would agree that the first paragraph of description of my observation should suffice. ;)
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And I suppose I could have done my homework first instead of soliciting the comments of the EXPERTS before putting this, my neck, on the block to see if this "topic" is not indeed a well rounded discussion already ... and from that draw the actual attention I wish to bring here, and thereby itch my own rub, but I'd like to suggest that somehow, some way the format disposed by the server as a webpage of Questions tagged by the user's choice and given some sort of the kind offered (unanswered|active|new\top rated), where indicative of the "Page 1 of 21" (lower left) followed by the first ten page links (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10), and then immediately to the lower right where both "First dot Prev dot Next" become instrumental in switching to the next fetchable set in the 21 total ... the returned set for "Next" actually be 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. and 20; not page "2" of "21". For example here: Quick Answers[^] After all, isn't the lower right hand apellative of "Next" refering to the next set of ten found items tagged as what the user wishes to narrow his list of possible entries by using a filter? I could post an image of what happens when I pick "Next" at this first filtering and what you would see in that image is the "Page 2 of 21" message that would be propagated by a mouseclick on "2". And I could spell out the word "REDUNDANCY" in Photoshop, copy and paste that image for further effect but I think anyone who is unalienably amenable to comments, agent of CP or no, would agree that the first paragraph of description of my observation should suffice. ;)
I have to disagree here. In every online page navigation UI I've ever seen, "next" takes you to the "next page", not the "next set of page numbers". And I imagine that going from page 1 to page 2 is far more common than wanting to jump from page 1 directly to page 11. As for the "redundancy": yes, you could find the specific page you're on, find the link to the next page number, and click on that. But that takes more effort than just clicking on the "next" link. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
