For shits and giggles, does anyone here actually use the page numbers at the bottom of the story lists (home page)? I’m not sure what the value is with them, especially as the numbers grow.
If I remove them and replace with a <Prev Next> links instead is anyone going to contract kill me?
Cheers, gav
I sometimes do if I'm looking for a random story I may not have seen that was posted in the mists of Lush time. I often go into the Lesbian category (my fav) and pick a random page from months/years ago and find something to read. There's some real gems buried back there. I wouldn't be able to do that with Prev/Next links.
Having said that, if it's changed I'll work round that and find another way to find older stories and give my personal contract killer the day off instead. You're safe lol
How about swapping it out for a 'Go to page number:' and then an input field? In between the Prev/Next links of course.
Well..... To work out how many pages you have you frist need to know your collection size. So that's a query for the total count and a hit for the page you're after. At the moment we cache these counts so its not too much strain on the db. I'm working on a change to split stories and poetry up, so now the cache gets a little more complicated. Would be nice to not have to worry about pages and collection counts altogether.
Is everyone with me?
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I never use them, but I guess search engines follow them. If so, removing them could have a big impact on stories being found through Google and 'friends'. With one 'Next' link on the homepage, only the stories on the second page are one link removed from the homepage. With paged navigation, like it is now, there are many more stories that are one link removed from the homepage. This can have a huge impact on the ranking of those stories.
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Thank you for the feedback re the spidering.
After spending many hours researching, I have a solution which will be implemented in the coming weeks. It will be both useful for surfers as well as helping spider the site more effectively. It will make greater use of our tag database.
I suggest you bring back those page numbers. Please.