Numbering of questions

[Scylax]

I would find it most helpful if each question in a
category were to be numbered.
Trawling through a long succession of questions
to find the original target Q. is a long-winded business,
especially when one can't remember the date when
the question was posed.

Hopefully yrs.

[ummmm]

I would also find it helpful if they showed the page numbers for the replies instead of putting next 20. We should have page 1,2,3 etc.

[joko]

look how many questions are here on this topic alone - over 2000!!

are you really going to remember that number?

if you have added to it you can just look in your profile and find just a list of posts you have replied to - you can also click on subscribe to a question - its on the screen somewhere.


ummm it says - questions 1-20, or 20-40, or 40-60 at the top of the page...just count them as 1,2,3

[ummmm]

Yes joko, but the options are 1-20, next page or last page. It would be good if they could show the number of pages instead. You have to click either through 20 replies at a time or to the last page. If I answered a question on page six it would be nice to be able to go to page six and read the rest of the replies. Like on google, pages 1 2 3 4 etc. Am I making sense? I find it very hard to explain things!

[muffty]

In other words paged numbers to click on to, like on the intitial topic q's (page 1 has 20) etc. So if your interested say in a question asked a day ago, start looking on page 4? Likewise on a very long thread, which in order to go wash your hands, come back and log on again, you can skip (good excercise) pages 1/2/3 having already read them?

[ummmm]

You've got it mufty!!!

[kempie]

You can bypass pages of replies in a thread with the application of a little typing in the address bar of your browser.

e.g. the URL for the first 20 replies to any thread is in the form

www.theAB.co.uk/Topic/Question333715.html

the second page of 20 replies would be

www.theAB.co.uk/Topic/Question333715-2.html

and the third page

www.theAB.co.uk/Topic/Question333715-3.html

etc. etc.

Therefore you can immediately proceed to page 6 by inserting -6 after the question number in the address bar.

[ummmm]

they could make it easier though kempie by just putting page 1,2,3,4,5 and allowing us to click on each page

[joko]

ahhh...i get what you mean

[kempie]

I agree that it would be easier to jump to a specific page using a clickable link, but since they do not exist (yet!) my explanation above was to merely show how to get the same effect with minimal effort.

[muffty]

Just looked in, and that is brill, kempie!!!

They say you learn something new every day, and this is it for me!! Yee Ha!!!!!


(Little things please little minds lol)

[muffty]

and closing with < / b > helps too!!

[ummmm]

I get it as well now, Thanks

[Scylax]

All good stuff here, and readily taken on board, and yet...
and yet...I still think it would be easier all round if each
Q. had a successive number.