Coldfusion Bloggers is a real cool site aggregator, but I have to confess, even since Ray switched over to jQuery from the heavy native CF stuff, the pagination is really annoying.
Why do we need to page 10 records at a time? why not 50 or 100?
There was a time when computers where bloody slow and pagination helped reduce system load, but it's 2008 and as Google proved, things have improved and we can do things differently.
Personally I like the planet style blog aggregators, but I prefer the CFBloggers style as I get some nice stats on whether or not people are reading my blog. Currently, the readership for my blog bobs between 100-500 hits a day.
It's a great feeling when I go to a conference or even quite randomly meet people and I get some nice feedback that they read my blog....
So Ray, what do ya think about bumping up the pagination size?
Update: Ray has tweaked cfbloggers, the following url will set an cookie which sets it up for 100 rows per page, tho 50 is probably enough
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Pagination can be so 1990's
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7 comments:
I think you have to consider more then just speed. Yes, it would be easy to put 100 items on the screen. But to me, that would be a bit overwhelming to the reader. If they glance away for a bit and come back, they could more easily forget how far they had scanned. I just think it would be overwhelming.
I've also seen something - maybe jQuery as well that simply uses Ajax to pull the next XX records and stick them on the bottom - think DZone does this. So there is just a continuous scroll...
@jim I like the continuous scroll idea, a bit like google reader then as well
@ray having a cookie and marking news posts would help & aren't most screens wide but shallow these days, there are only so many posts visible on one page
Bah, I love DZone, but don't like the scroll. I think it's the OCD part of me that is bothered by the fact that you never get to the bottom.
Ok, since you guys bitched and moaned so much (kidding!), I added the ability to specify a page size. Just go to CFB and add pageSize=1-100 to the URL. A cookie will be stored so you don't need to update your bookmarks.
as in http://www.coldfusionbloggers.org/index.cfm?pageSize=1-100
alas it didn't work?
ok, I saw your post, I'll footnote mine
Nope, I meant a # from 1 to a 100. Not literally 1-100. ;)
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