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How can I go back to choosing page ?

By trilogybeer

10 years ago

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#1 10 years ago

DUG

trilogybeer

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Elkhorn, WI

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I Don't like the infinate scrolling of pages because it doesn't allow you to just jump to page 5 or 6 for example now I have to scroll through 4 or 5 pages If I want to go to page 5 or 6 and with my crappy internet service this can take a really long time . Is there any way to turn off infinate scroll and go back to the old version where at the bottom or top each page there was a choice of which page you would like to view next ? I checked under settings and did not see any such option there , but maybe I missed it .

#2 10 years ago

RAC

DarkWizard

Pinside member

Bethlehem, PA

11y 78,900 1,617 2 110

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#3 10 years ago

TIM

ralphwiggum

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Sullivan, WI

12y 108K 5,445 6

Yeah lots of great updates, but the infinite scrolling seems to be a bit of a swing and a miss.... I browse Pinside primarily via mobile device, and the infinite scrolling and page one functions get all screwed up when I read a topic and return to the previous page.

#4 10 years ago

DOG

pmWolf

Pinside Moderator

Union City, MI

13y 157K 4,526 59 112

Agree.

I would rather have the page-choose option.

The infinite scroll is neat, on the surface....but in practice, it isn't too useful.

I'm okay with hitting the "next" button to get to page two.

Pete

#5 10 years ago

CBM

spfxted

Pinside member

Saddle River, NJ

12y 147K 24,661 4 9

agree

#6 10 years ago

SBS

o-din

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+1 for excessive scrolling.
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#7 10 years ago

ABB

Aurich

Mods and Opinions

Torrance, CA

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Scroll up from this post a little bit to the nav bar under the big thread title. Click Settings. Then look for "Dynamic topic lists building". Select "Disable dynamic topic lists, just gimme the old paging controls".

#8 10 years ago

MEL

blondetall

Pinside+ Member

11y 99,300 6,269

OP
Quoted from robin:
Fortunately you can change this behavior in your forum settings pages.
However, I think this behavior is a great way to have people "look back in time" a little further. One of the problems Pinside was facing was that topics would move so fast of the front page, people could not keep up. I think the front-page auto-loading more topics works brilliantly to solve that issue. It also saves server load, because only the actual topics need fetching, no more re-rendering the page.
Of course I respect your opinion and therefore this is a setting you can set to 'full auto', 'manual auto' or 'manual paging'.

#9 10 years ago

DOG

pmWolf

Pinside Moderator

Union City, MI

13y 157K 4,526 59 112

Quoted from Aurich:
Scroll up from this post a little bit to the nav bar under the big thread title. Click Settings. Then look for "Dynamic topic lists building". Select "Disable dynamic topic lists, just gimme the old paging controls".

Bam!!

Thanks!

Pete

#10 10 years ago

PEN

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Bloomfield Hills, MI

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Quoted from pmWolf:
Bam!!
Thanks!
Pete

+1 !

Thanks!

#11 10 years ago

RAC

DarkWizard

Pinside member

Bethlehem, PA

11y 78,900 1,617 2 110

Cool, I for one was looking in the wrong settings page.

#12 10 years ago

DUG

trilogybeer

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Elkhorn, WI

11y 150K 8,893 14 2

Thanks Aurich

#13 10 years ago

JOE

joemagiera

Pinside member

Evanston, IL

11y 43,400 630 8 1

Quoted from Aurich:
Scroll up from this post a little bit to the nav bar under the big thread title. Click Settings. Then look for "Dynamic topic lists building". Select "Disable dynamic topic lists, just gimme the old paging controls".

Sweet! Great, thanks much, worked for me. Now to get a double gold star, tell me how to do this for google groups (so I can read rec.games.pinball page by page at my choosing).

#14 10 years ago

DJQ

DanQverymuch

Pinside+ Addict

Neenah, WI

12y 98,550 4,530

Quoted from joemagiera:
Sweet! Great, thanks much, worked for me. Now to get a double gold star, tell me how to do this for google groups (so I can read rec.games.pinball page by page at my choosing).

http://rgparchive-removed.com/rgpforum/forumdisplay.php?f=2

#15 10 years ago

RVM

robin

Pinside founder

Alkmaar

21y 192K 7,921 94

Auto-loading may seem like a step back for all you page navigators, but it actually has a nice trick up its sleeve: try hovering your mouse over the yellow auto-loading box that says "page 2"?

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