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by fizzbatter 3509 days ago
Good god that's a frustrating UI. Am i blind or is there no meaningful way to find a company you're interested in? Ie, a search.

I used the alphabetical list, but scrolling through what seems like thousands of companies is a bit asinine. What am i missing?

edit: This is bothering me more than it should, so i figured i would try to automate scrolling to the bottom of the page so i can try and find the company i wanted. Once opened devtools, i saw it making requests to an API, looks like i was on page 30:

    http://deathwatch.io/json/US-ALL-SORTED_AZ-30.json
So, i just started poking around the pages of that list. With that said... it seems to stop at page 79. Eg:

    http://deathwatch.io/json/US-ALL-SORTED_AZ-79.json
That works... but this:

    http://deathwatch.io/json/US-ALL-SORTED_AZ-80.json
Does not. It looks like page 79 is on the Cs of the A-Z listing.. hmm
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I wanted to host the whole thing statically, hence no search. I'm just a mediocre hobby developer, so I can live with it.

Regarding the missing pages, I noticed that too. Will look into it.

Sorry, not trying to be harsh. If we have the ability to manually paginage, that would be enough. As it is, it would take me a long time (30m? no idea, honestly) to get to the bottom request on my trackpad.

I want to use the service, but seeing as i can only view the first dozen pages or so with any sanity, it basically makes it impossible.