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Offline Sordid

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« on: Apr 16, 2011, 06:11:13 PM »
Yeah, those two links at the bottom of each page that read "« previous" and "next »" that lead to the next and previous threads. They're driving me. Fucking. Nuts. Am I the only one who keeps clicking them thinking that they lead to the previous and next page and then wondering at the unexpected turn the 'thread' took? I've made that mistake four times already and each time I tell myself I'll know better next time, but of course it never works.

They're perfectly positioned for this kind of mistake to occur, too. When you finish reading the last post on the page your eyes end up in the lower right corner of the screen. You want to go to the next page and look, there's a link that reads "next" right where you're looking. How convenient! Of course you're going to click it!

I mean, why are they even there? It's not like they tell you what the next and previous threads even are. Do you know what the threads above and below the one you're reading are? I sure don't. Why would you want to go to a thread if you don't know what it is? You might as well repace them with a "random thread" link, that'd be about as useful.

Please, please, please make them actually lead to the next and previous page instead of the next and previous thread. Or at least rename them "next thread" and "previous thread".

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Re: « previous next »
« Reply #1 on: Apr 16, 2011, 06:26:10 PM »
I've trained myself to look for the numbers, so it doesn't happen to me, but yeah... they're useless... could be made useful.
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Re: « previous next »
« Reply #2 on: Apr 17, 2011, 10:15:43 AM »
Yeah when I first started posting here it drove me crazy.  A very useless and misleading feature.
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Re: « previous next »
« Reply #3 on: Apr 17, 2011, 11:32:42 AM »
I didn't even notice they were there.
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Re: « previous next »
« Reply #4 on: Apr 17, 2011, 11:39:05 AM »
Not a big deal on a real computer, but I'd agree that on a small phone with limited internet access they're kinduva pain.

(and I'm not sure this is the right board to post this, 'Technical Administration' would probably be more appropriate)
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Re: « previous next »
« Reply #5 on: Apr 27, 2011, 01:17:54 AM »
i've already made that mistake a ton of times and i've only been here like a week

 

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