Pagination.. pain in the **** or good? Thread

Hey guys, do you think tutorials / features posted on the Mod DB should be paginated i.e. jump through pages to view the content, or should they be shown on one page wikipedia style?

Just something I was thinking about and my answer to this is - don't paginate tutorials, show it all on one page but paginate features?

I guess the only issue with this is if the member decides to post a super long feature / tutorial

Nothing wrong with actual anchors. Tutorial sites do this all the time.
But when it's a very long, lengthy tutorial with lots of images involved, pagination is a must.

Also... "pain in the ****"? What obscene four-letter word exists to refer to the backside?

Edited by: leilei

I agree theres nothing wrong with pages and keeping everything neat.

Agreed.
If article is short (up to 1½ page length), keep it on one page.
Articles longer than that should be paginated.

You can generally get away with pretty large pages, so long as there aren't too many images. When there are too many images, it's a pain in the arse to skip to the sections you want, when it's still loading images above your text and bumping the content down the screen

Alright... well i've got a good idea for pagination anyhow so i'll implement that now.

Basically it'll be smart like wikipedia in that it creates a table of contents based on the headings in the tutorial / feature.

Paganism should definitely be introduced as the forum religion. Not only will it improve motivation, it'll also bring back the brawls!

I think I would prefer to have it all as one page wikipedia style. Its easier to scroll through and read something rather than go through pages. Using the mouse is a tough job. Keyboards make the world go sphere.

INtense! wrote: Alright... well i've got a good idea for pagination anyhow so i'll implement that now.

Basically it'll be smart like wikipedia in that it creates a table of contents based on the headings in the tutorial / feature.

Sounds good to me.

that's so smart - can't fail!

No, honestly - seems like a good idea like that.

But...the features don't use headings.

Unless you're talking about the differently named pages.

Feature pages on v4 do not have titles. Instead it will be table of contents based on the headings - so all existing features will have to be updated to reflect this change.