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"Um, yes". As a catalog grows, past items get pushed to later pages making page-linking useless.
by sodapopcan 4y ago
"Um, yes". As a catalog grows, past items get pushed to later pages making page-linking useless.
- bluefirebrand 4y agoThis is assuming things are added to the front of the catalog and not the back. That's the usual default, but there are usually sort options along with pagination that can make an items place in a list more or less fixed.
- 0x457 4y agoSorting could be anything. If it's a storefront, then the first page will definitely change from time to time. Paginated pages are about as linkable as properly implemented infinite scrolling.
- Schroedingersat 4y agomyitems.foo?first=thebananasid&sort=juiciest&count=999 Maybe if you're linking to the page with the dragonfruit on it and a bunch of items get added between that and the banana it might be off by a page, but it'll be close enough to be useful.
- romwell 4y agoIt's not useless for the user who has accidentally closed the page or clicked the "back" button. Or wants to send a link right now to be opened right now ("Hey honey, which one of these things should I get?"). Links are inherently ephemeral: content changes and expires, and there's nothing that guarantees against that. Doesn't make them useless.