Question: "Pages" In History List (Short Rant)
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Assaf Gordon • 320 wrote:
(My galaxy's not working, I have lots of time to write emails...)
There's a new "pages" feature on the main galaxy site (was it
introduced just yesterday?).
It almost gave me a heart attack...
There's no clear indication of division to pages (like a big shiny
"next" button) and the links to the 1/2/3/4 pages are really tiny.
For a second I thought all my old histories were gone.
That being said,
I really don't like this feature.
On my internal galaxy (which is not upgraded yet) I have more than 250
histories.
That's 25 pages (!).
The histories are not tagged (since tagging is a new feature) - so
there's no way of filtering them.
Without pagination, all my histories are shown on one page, and I can
use my browser's "find" function to look for a history by name (or
just sort by date and scroll down the list).
Why do I need division to pages ?
Please note that almost all web sites that do use pages, offer a
global "search" button (not just tag search) - so in practice (if the
search engine is good) - there's no need to go to the "next" page.
This is not the case in Galaxy.
Think about how much work I have to do in order to find a history, If
I didn't tag it (or if I forgot the tag name) - way too taxing.
Also, the links themselves are very very small - it might make me
sound like a grumpy bitter old man (which I am), but navigating galaxy
with all those small triangle drop-down menus and small links becomes
an exercise in hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills.
Not all galaxy users are computer-savvy, they don't all swoosh and
pinch and swap (or whatever you mac people do with the mouse). Please
keep galaxy easy and accessible.
Just my two cents,
- gordon.