On October 18 Typepad officially introduced "pagination". In essence, "pages" are an excellent idea. Remember Second Test: Streak Talk? Well, just think back to all the fun you had loading 11,158 words, 5 pictures and 671 comments.
The AGB is now limited to no more than 50 comments per page, with any comments over 50 displayed on a new page, any over 100 on another page, any over 150 on...
Anyway! you will have noticed a problem.
With more than 50 comments, when you click on the name of the most recent commenter, in this case the Esteemed Ranger:
you end up at the top of the first page, instead of the bottom of the last. You must then scroll down to the bottom of the first page, click "next", scroll down to the bottom of the "next" page, and eventually arrive at latest comments.
At least, I assume you have noticed.
Typepad are working on the problem - it relates to having one instruction call up different pages - so, for the time being, and maybe for all time being if it turns out to be a better option, I have reversed the order of the comments.
It used to be that the newest comments were displayed "Oldest first (Ascending), I changed that to "Newest first (Descending)".
The upshot is that instead of having to skip through numerous links to get to the latest comments, you now jump straight to the most recent comments which are displayed at the top of the first page
Update! Readers, we have a problem. (The real Swigert and the real Lovell really said "Houston, we've had a problem." True.) It would appear "pagination" doesn't work backwards. Testing
Update! Comments are being recorded by Typepad. However, when "newest first" is selected, the comments are being published as they go from the first page to the second, but NOT as they go from the second page to the third. Odd. For me to display Comment 101 in the previous post, I had to republish my comment settings.
Update! "Newest first" was, in the words of Gilly, a "joke". I've gone back to "oldest first", which is oddly appropriate to this stupid post. The more things change, the the more they end up back where they started. As a symbolic gesture I set the comment count at 30.
Test
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:21
Test
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:21
Test
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:25
Test
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:26
Tets.
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:27
Tste
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:27
auhschawd
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:28
There is a tavern in the town.
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:32
In the town.
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:32
And there my true love sits him down.
Posted by: Tony T | 31 October 2008 at 12:33
Methinks life in this universe is getting stranger and stranger...
Posted by: Rob de Santos | 31 October 2008 at 14:50
Now this post is working "oldest first".
What a stupid post.
Posted by: Tony T. | 31 October 2008 at 15:52
The song?
... sits him down.
Posted by: Tony T. | 31 October 2008 at 15:53
I have found the paged version of the comments a pain in the proverbial. If the posts are ordered from first (earliest) to last (latest) then it would be good to have a link to the final page. There is a link already to the next page and the previous page but this just means I have to click and click and click. It's hell for those of us in dial-up land.
Posted by: Martin | 05 November 2008 at 17:40
Have to 2nd that idea. This blog being so HUGE when it comes to cricket threads.
Posted by: Big Ramifications | 05 November 2008 at 18:41
I have been using a kluge in the address bar. There is a /n/comments# at the end of the address where n is the page number. I over-type that with the highest known number from last time and move from there.
Would be good to have a '>Last' link there Tony.
Posted by: Bruce | 05 November 2008 at 21:21
Agree that jumping through the "nexts" is a pain. I'd like to insert a "last" or preferably a direct URL to each comment, but I don't know how, or even if you can.
Typepad mumbled something about "working on it". I hope they are.
Posted by: Tony T | 06 November 2008 at 11:15
"working on it"??
They have the number of comments and the number of comments per page. Divide and print a link. It's what, 1 line of code? It's taken me longer to describe it than it would to implement.
Posted by: Russ | 06 November 2008 at 11:40
"It's what, 1 line of code?"
It is?
Do tell.
Posted by: Tony T | 06 November 2008 at 12:44
I'd need to see the source code before I could tell you what the line is, Tony. Presumably you don't have access to it. But if you do, email me it to me, I'll fix it forthwith.
Posted by: Russ | 06 November 2008 at 13:42
Russ, the code is on the way via carrier email.
Posted by: Tony T | 06 November 2008 at 13:48