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I have to agree with the others here. The removal of the page selector might make sense for admin/management, however it is very inconvenient for users. Page numbers were an extremely quick and convenient way of looking for a specific gallery if you know a general timeframe in which it was uploaded as you could gauge where it would be in the search results. Additionally, it was just a good method for simple quick browsing.

To make matters worse, if you input even a couple of tags that generate more than a handful of results, the only feedback the user is given is a vague “many results were found”. This provides no meaningful information on how many galleries they have to look through.

Whilst many of the updates were long awaited, kneecapping things on the user end seems utterly counterintuitive and a huge step backwards.

Can we use GID search like that from GID:A to GID:B
it will show the all galler's GID between A and b

The gid: syntax does not support that, but you can use the prev/next arguments to mimic that behavior. I might add syntax support for it since it can just latch onto the navigation arguments internally, though it's not strictly necessary.

Even if it's an approximate result is there really no way to change the "Found many results." text with a real number? This one honestly bothers me much more than the page selectors.

While it knows how many there are of each tag, it does not know the extent of the overlap before it actually intersects the indexes, which is very expensive for a large result. So while it might be able to show an upper or lower bound for some additional types of search queries, it might be very inaccurate and counter-intuitive. And to be frank, I'll rather not be screening "it shows there are x results but I'm getting way less!!!111" threads for the rest of my time.

Its really helpfull indeed when i search for multiple tags and instead of a list of works i only get "found many results" instead
thank you e-hentai, you are utter garbage now, sorry if not every user in your now shitty site saves favorites by authors and instead searches things by artstyles that they enjoy

This post has been edited by Nidogrr: Nov 2 2022, 14:23

please roll back to old version of the site! thanks!! (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/anime_cry.gif)

This post has been edited by 冷 毁: Nov 2 2022, 14:23

Probably the worst functionality update of all time for any website I use. I can't even jump to a specific page in my favorites.
Can you at least implement a "Skip ahead 5/10/20 pages" feature?

pressing the button 50 times is hell...

no longer.. don't see item deleted in favorite list ?

it was useful...

i'm so sad.

yes please

being able to jump few pages and going back few and knowing what pages you are is very useful

agree

please add page selector

not gonna lie... having the pages removed fucks me up huge times

basically cant skip to estimated time stamps and etc aanymore

Love how this always happens, some admin decides behind closed doors to change their site, no heads up, no advanced warning, not even a trial run to see how the users like it before implementing it, no, just blind side them and force them to completely relearn the site cuz someone got bored of a tried and tested old interface.

Last announcement for site features we got was something about an expunge function back in april, had 6 months to say "hey we'll be changing how the site operates this year", and give people a chance to prepare for change, instead you launch it in the middle of the night when most people are asleep so you can delay the immediate backlash.

Your userbase are horny cumbrains, this is a porn site, keep it simple, what layman knows what a GID is? EVERYONE knows what a page is and how to go about using them.

I'm aware that removing the pagenumber addressing breaks your favorite 3rd party downloading or browsing tool, it even says so in the patch notes, but there is no world line in which the site still has pagenumber addressing and also doesn't just keel over in the next year or two, so there really is no point in demanding its return.
In that case, if you leave the search page open or bookmark it, the results on that page will conveniently be exactly where you left it when you continue reading no matter how long it takes.
The search engine is fully custom, both before and after the change. It was never using limit/offset.

I don't even care about 3rd party apps (altho I can see why they'd be useful); I liked having the ability to search a tag on the site then go to, say, the 80th page and continue going from there in order to see galleries that I hadn't seen for a while. There are a TON of older works that I don't remember off the top of my head, but if I stumbled onto them again I'll go "oh, this was good, I feel like reading it again".

This update makes that impossible via the UI, which feels bad. I get that it might not be possible to change it, but this is the place for feedback, so...

Also when I searched a bookmarked tag today, I got a bunch of seemingly unrelated results, but I'll have to do more research to see what happened there.

Ultimately, I think this is a "it's new and removing functionality so I dislike it", but I don't think it's anything actually *awful*, if that makes sense.

Edit: Ah, no. Searching as I used to is just completely broken. Searching "corr" used to bring up anything with that string in it's title or tag (useful for male: corruption and female:corruption), but now it appears to only grab the titles. It jumps from page 1 being October results to page 3 being march results, when it should have October results still returning on page 3.

It looks like I now have to explicitly search "female:corruption" to return results, which is just not a great change. This mostly impacts multi-word searches, like using the term "mind" as a catchall for mind control and mind break, for instance. Additionally, it means that if you want to search a tag on both genders, you have to double the amount of tags you're searching. Just an absolutely terrible quality of life change.

Even if you had to kill pagination, which sucks but is understandable, killing the ability for partial string search on tags isn't good (unless the idea is to open user-created tags onto galleries, which could be useful but result in a ton of issues for partial string searches). I'm assuming user-created tags are never going to be a thing, so bringing back partial tag searches is ideal for QOL and usability.

This post has been edited by woot5: Nov 2 2022, 15:06

Actually, I've never thought of this, could we search before within an upload date range? Like between march 2020 to june 2020? If this is possible it might be better than the new ID system.

This user's Idea is very good
I usually use the pagenumber jump to the gallery times that I don't browse

This post has been edited by cs987987: Nov 2 2022, 14:42

This seems like a lot to deal with at once, especially since the previous method has been the norm for so long. Perhaps the previous system could be put as a search option. At the most extreme, perhaps there could be a vote on the system being employed.

The removal of page number is bad, real bad.

Its just not make sense at all, other then stating search engine is really bad.
May it is time to switch to a not so custom one.



This post has been edited by 117649: Nov 2 2022, 14:57

If the new system can somehow mimic the functionality of the old system then this could be okay. It doesn't need to be the same, just similar. If it's skipping by GID now then it would really help if there were buttons for bigger GID jumps than a single page, as well as a "skip to ### GID" box.

Those of us who are heavy users will adapt to different ways of doing things even if it's a little frustrating at first. But having the functionality be the user editing the URL in a non-intuitive way isn't great when there could (hopefully) just be UI elements doing it for us.

This is obviously an upgrade on the back end, and I don't think this is miles away from being acceptably usable on the front end.

But right now as someone who absolutely jumps through dozens of pages looking for stuff that I *roughly* know what it's called and where it is, checking for translated versions and textless versions, checking for best censorship and image quality, it's gonna make my life harder. As much as a lot of people do great work with the naming and tagging on this site it's never 100%, and doing a broader search and scanning through the results visually is a quick and effective way to be pretty sure I've found all the results I want.

This user's Idea is very good
I usually use the pagenumber jump to the gallery times that I don't browse

Yeah honestly I think being able to search using a date range might help deal with the loss of a page selector.
I’ve tried using the new system and it’s not the worst thing ever per se, however I think if there was a way to navigate by a huge amount without having to mess with the URL bar, that’d be great since I often browse on mobile. Maybe add in a feature that puts a box at the top telling the user what the current topmost GID is and allow the user to change it?

really confused with this update, at least make page numbe as a feature in Hath Perk or for donater

It's better to put the technical reason for the update in the first line of this thread, although it's not expected that many people will read it and understand it.

Also, it seems that in Favorites you can no longer see the galleries that have been taken down due to copyright claims. It should be at least fine to see their metadata?

This post has been edited by mewsf: Nov 2 2022, 15:08

I understand the need to improve things but this update is not user-friendly at all: No explanation of this GID thing in the front page and now the average user has to remember a bunch of long numbers to get their results? Please consider rolling back until you come out with something better because this is not the answer to the problem.

This post has been edited by darkspirit: Nov 2 2022, 15:09

I fail to see the reason to why the page numbers on searches had to be removed. All this has done was make a very good way to skip around pages while looking for a manga/doujin less convenient.

Yeah, have to agree with the posters here. Not seeing the page number or being able to select one via pop-up box is a significant downgrade of this website. There's been plenty of explanations given before my reply, so there's no necessity for me to elaborate further on it as my opinions match theirs.

But it does feel like end-users who enjoyed this specific functionality from before are being shoved to the side for the "vision" of the developers. And we all know how well that worked out for path of exile.

Just bring it back, there's no reason not to.
Thank you.