So I was just messing around with this website, and I noticed that when you go to page 750, there is no previous page/back button, just a "next" button and no more page numbers. So why is this happening? Is this actually a feature?

refresh said:
So I was just messing around with this website, and I noticed that when you go to page 750, there is no previous page/back button, just a "next" button and no more page numbers. So why is this happening? Is this actually a feature?

I would highly assume, it is to save resources. And tbh, who clicks through every single page and looks at each individual picture, without searching for specific tag?

I've never actually reached page 750 so I never knew this was a thing. After I clicked the next button on page 750 the next page was b3176592, so I guess it's switching to using a different method instead of pagination to save on resources.

I'm going to guess post #3176592 was the last post on page 750 at the time I hit the next button, and from there it becomes a lot more efficient to just subtract numbers rather than make the same query multiple times with a larger offset each time.

I do wonder why it only switches to this method after 750 pages, since I imagine it's a lot more efficient.

It does indeed switch to save resources, once it does ordering by id is enforced. No one really goes through that many pages except to see what is at the end (and bots). Most ordering can be inverted, like order:score and order:score_asc, so just do that if you want to go to the last page.

dubsthefox said:
who clicks through every single page and looks at each individual picture, without searching for specific tag?

My goals are beyond your understanding

If you really care about it, you can run a search like id:<3177547 to get things older than those 750 pages, as page 750 becomes page 1.

furrin_gok said:
If you really care about it, you can run a search like id:<3177547 to get things older than those 750 pages, as page 750 becomes page 1.

The next/previous buttons at the bottom of the page do this automatically. It's seamless as long as you haven't changed the sorting order of posts.