Offsets only make sense when you have ordered lists. For large scale applications your really can't think about a global total order. This is the reason why a

Offsets only make sense when you have ordered lists. For large scale applications your really can't think about a global total order. This is the reason why a list of pages should not be used with large amounts of data. Also: It is a poor design choice. If you have users that see themselves go to page X, then they don't have the filtering they need.