I may be in a minority of one, but is it feasible to bring back story pagination as a user-selectable option?
AJ
I may be in a minority of one, but is it feasible to bring back story pagination as a user-selectable option?
AJ
Not really. In other words, it's not easy.
With a separate text server servicing multiple sites as well as enabling text search and the need for caching to minimize network traffic, paging adds yet another moving part and complicates things. That usually introduces bugs. And it would probably take too much work to iron out all the potential bugs.
It's best to keep the system as simple as possible.
Although, who knows what the future may allow, so, it's not a hard 'No'...
In other words, it's not easy.
I suspected as much after I made the request.
so, it's not a hard 'No'...
Thank you.
AJ
https://slate.com/technology/2012/10/website-pagination-stories-should-load-into-a-single-page-every-time.html
Funny quote from the article:
I know you're ready to call this a First World problem. (When I told my wife that I was writing about the scourge of multipage articles, she responded, "That seems like a … weak topic for an article." She also told me she likes when articles are split into multiple pages. I'll get to that argument below; needless to say, that woman is no longer my wife.)
ETA: I searched for a browser extension that would paginate a site's page. Guess what? There's an extension to merge paginated web pages into a single page, but none to split them in multiple pages :D
Agreed.
More generally, if a feature is added to the site, please include a way to turn said feature off. Having to doubleclick halfway through a page is IMO not an improvement.
I agree completel with this, it making me double click part way through a chapter is very annoying.
I agree completel with this, it making me double click part way through a chapter is very annoying.
Not really... scrolling up and then back down to get the page to load- now that was very annoying.
scrolling up and then back down to get the page to load- now that was very annoying.
I have to wonder whether the removal of pagination led to an escalation of the bot problem.
AJ
I have to wonder whether the removal of pagination led to an escalation of the bot problem.
Logically that in itself should have lessened the problem: instead of downloading multiple pages they now got the whole story/chapter in one, thus a lot less connections.
I have to wonder whether the removal of pagination led to an escalation of the bot problem.
No. It seems it was the release of some updated auto-download tools that target SOL specifically.