[mscarborough]

There's apparently at least 96 responses so far. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses

Is 96 the real number? Since the search bar always says 'featured responses'. When you click the bottom bar to see more responses it does some delayed-JS-scroll action and shows all of 8 more results.

Unless you're really trying to increase the drop-off rate on each click, why make it so crappy? How many sites set their pagination to 8 items, unless they want users to linger on what was just delivered?

They don't seem to be very serious about the petition site. Good PR, and I guess I'm glad they have the option, but it's kind of a joke.

[cheeseandbacon]

96 looks about right, here the final json response:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses/more/all/12/2/0

Here are a few more I've found poking around:

[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses/more/all/1/3/3 [2] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses/more/all/1/3/4

Maybe there's a documented API somewhere, but the queries seem to follow a pattern ala:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/responses/more/all/[$pageID...

[eurleif]

>Good PR

Is it? It seems to lead to a lot of discontent when petitions don't get the response people want.

[mscarborough]

Perhaps only in the larger umbrella. As in, "we have a site where you can sign petitions, and if you get 25k signees, you are guaranteed a response".

It sounds good in theory. But nobody in proportion to the general population is actually using it (much less heard about it), so it's just a cutesy PR move at this point.