Noah Doersing recommended Turn everything around: Page numbers on the web and why they’re currently mostly useless from stepoffthishurtlingmachine.tumblr.com:

the front page, is numbered 1, and all older pages are numbered incrementally from there on. Not only is this useless, as just demonstrated, but also semantically wrong. It should be the other way around

tralafiti recommended Turn everything around: Page numbers on the web and why they’re currently mostly useless from stepoffthishurtlingmachine.tumblr.com:

the front page, is numbered 1, and all older pages are numbered incrementally from there on. Not only is this useless, as just demonstrated, but also semantically wrong. It should be the other way around

Malte Müller recommended Turn everything around: Page numbers on the web and why they’re currently mostly useless from stepoffthishurtlingmachine.tumblr.com:

the front page, is numbered 1, and all older pages are numbered incrementally from there on. Not only is this useless, as just demonstrated, but also semantically wrong. It should be the other way around

Dario Lowin recommended Turn everything around: Page numbers on the web and why they’re currently mostly useless from stepoffthishurtlingmachine.tumblr.com:

The current convention is that the newest page, the front page, is numbered 1, and all older pages are numbered incrementally from there on. Not only is this useless, as just demonstrated, but also semantically wrong. It should be the other way around: the first page of articles published on a blog should have the number 1 (because it was the first), and all newer article pages get higher numbers.

David Jacob recommended Turn everything around: Page numbers on the web and why they’re currently mostly useless from stepoffthishurtlingmachine.tumblr.com:

You’re on page 26. You bookmark the page with the intent of coming back tomorrow, or on the weekend, to browse through the rest. You open page 26. It has different content than when you last saw it.

ktinka recommended Turn everything around: Page numbers on the web and why they’re currently mostly useless from stepoffthishurtlingmachine.tumblr.com:

s. The front page of a blog would no longer be page 1, but something like 47, because the front page of a blog isn’t the beginning of the whole thing, but the end.