Missing from sitewide update (Nov. 2012)
When the site was updated in November of 2012, certain things were lost.
When reading the Answers section and you scroll to the bottom of the available questions asked, there aren't any additional buttons to allow you to see the "next page". Previously there were numbered buttons and next/end buttons. Since I am looking for something that someone asked a while ago (I happened to find an answer to that particular question), it is not easily found. While I could use search, it would be much easier to step back a couple of pages to find it. Besides, how many questions will now go unanswered because they will never be seen again?
Also within the Answers section, there used to be an "ALL" option that directly took you to 'ibles sorted in the manner selected for the Answers section - in my case it was always set to recent. Now you have to hover over the Explore tab and then you can only sort by "All Featured" or All Recent", or select from subcategories. It went from single click to multi-step. Not as user friendly as it was.
I can deal with the 'ible "ALL" link missing (albeit not happily), but the inability to see "More" of the Answers needs to be addressed.
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When reading the Answers section and you scroll to the bottom of the available questions asked, there aren't any additional buttons to allow you to see the "next page". Previously there were numbered buttons and next/end buttons. Since I am looking for something that someone asked a while ago (I happened to find an answer to that particular question), it is not easily found. While I could use search, it would be much easier to step back a couple of pages to find it. Besides, how many questions will now go unanswered because they will never be seen again?
Also within the Answers section, there used to be an "ALL" option that directly took you to 'ibles sorted in the manner selected for the Answers section - in my case it was always set to recent. Now you have to hover over the Explore tab and then you can only sort by "All Featured" or All Recent", or select from subcategories. It went from single click to multi-step. Not as user friendly as it was.
I can deal with the 'ible "ALL" link missing (albeit not happily), but the inability to see "More" of the Answers needs to be addressed.
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Add this to the end of the URL on the Q&A page to get to page 2:
&offset=60
Then to get to page 3 (and so on), add increments of 60 (&offset=120, &offset=180).
Its not the best option, but its a temporary work around until they get it fixed.
I understand that the change is to help make it more streamlined and easier for sitewide changes/updates to be made, but I have to say what I said about Yahoo! changing things a while back. When people get used to doing things a certain way, changing things for the sake of change only serves to p*** people off. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Or is it a sign of the A.D.D. world we live in today? :/
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As for how quick they get to it, maybe a 3 minute piece of work? Should be quick, even if it is in the stylesheet. Ok, maybe a few minutes more to make sure it works on all platforms. But if you have it on other pages already, it can't be that hard. Just "Sayan".
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