[wruza]

Why is offset-based pagination a thing at all? It sucks when a feed is very active, it sucks when you link to a page or visit search results, where it may turn out to be hundreds of pages away in a week. I always wondered why nobody does some obvious (order_col > k, order by order_col, limit n). It’s not a two years old mistake, it’s two decades and sites still do that by default.

[Aeolun]

Because normal people enjoy referring to ‘item 4 on page 3’ instead of ‘search for item 57533898-2’.

At least I do. Passing numbers under 10 is easy. Passing identifiers is hell.

[wruza]

This makes sense for content that grows at the end.