Page numbers in directory.

zynsc

Please bring back the page numbers in the browse by game list, or at least give us some way to load all games and/or sort by viewer count. I will always go to the end of the list to find more obscure games and new streamers and this new "Load More" format makes that very difficult.

-edited title to make it clear I'm talking about the directory

tbirdd

Yes, I would would like the page numbers back, also.  It's much easier to look by page instead tacking them at the end, with an ever larger page developing.  I am annoyed by the change.  It adds nothing, but instead makes it harder to browse.

itruthful

Fire mentioned on twitter something about still being able to use the pages option, but I can't seem to find it myself. I'm assuming because he's also an Admin he has the option to switch between by default for ease of moderation.

But I do agree with you, the pages option made it easier to find the obscured streamers. If there isn't an option already for this (I honestly can't find it if it's there, so I'm either blind or it isn't there) then it would be nice to have a choice indeed.

Fire

@itruthful I was replying to fishstix's asking for feature requests :p

itruthful

Fire said:

@itruthful I was replying to fishstix's asking for feature requests :p

Ah I see, my mistake!

imiq

The page number system was far more efficient and web standards compliant, the new system wrecks havoc with browsers back button.

tabako

We are looking into ways to alleviate this.

I'm curious as to how this "wrecks havoc with browsers back button". Seems to do exactly what it should for me (i.e. undo an action and return your screen to what it was before you clicked on something). Can you let me know what browser you are using and how the back button doesn't do what you expect it to?

imiq

Scroll down, hit load more, scroll down, hit load more... etc, hit the back button -> you are now at the top of the list without any of the previous pages loaded. By pages I mean the load more button.

Fire

@imiq are you saying the back button should simply unload the previously loaded "page" in this instance, or that the entire directory should act as a single page in the history regardless of how many pages were loaded?

bgeorge

I'm assuming he is referring to hitting the back button or reloading the page will basically loose your place in the directory after you have hit the load more button several times. 

For example, with the old directory if you are on navigating sequentially through the directory and are at page 6 and go check out a channel. You click back and you are back on page 6.

With the new directory, you click back and you are essentially back at page 1 again, loosing your place browsing through the directory.

imiq

bgeorge said:

I'm assuming he is referring to hitting the back button or reloading the page will basically loose your place in the directory after you have hit the load more button several times. 

For example, with the old directory if you are on navigating sequentially through the directory and are at page 6 and go check out a channel. You click back and you are back on page 6.

With the new directory, you click back and you are essentially back at page 1 again, loosing your place browsing through the directory.

This, exactly.

sapienstv

Please bring back the page number links.  The "Load More" button adds nothing to the site and is terrible for navigating to the last page and working forward, like many people here (including myself) tend to do.

swiftfire

Please bring that numeric system back. Way easier to find less popular games on Twitch. Or make an option for the user to choose between these systems. Don't fix things what isn't broken....

vch001

I would rather keep the Load More tab. As probably said above, a majority of the time my browser may crash or refresh while continuously clicking load more which constantly annoys me.
But searching thought pages numerically was more tedious and annoying overall if I was to misclick and forget the page I was at.
I'd honestly take the crashing and refreshing over that any day,
But overall, I would like an option to Load All the pages at once if possible, or atleast an option to search thought Untitled streams or streams with no games listed. 

relik1

Yes please, please put the page numbers back. The load button is ridicalous.

emrendil

I agree, page numbers were better. And also, with smaller thumbnails you could get more streams on the page.

sapienstv

tabako said:

We are looking into ways to alleviate this.

You alleviate it by reverting the change.  What exactly was supposed to be the benefit of making it HARDER for users to navigate the site effectively?  I don't think many people were asking for that.  Are you just trying to drive more traffic to the more popular streams?

zynsc

I finally got annoyed enough with this that I looked into the API. Disclaimer: I am not putting a lot of effort into this since I hope that Twitch will fix it on their own, nor am I a python wiz. In the meantime this works somewhat for me because it's very easy to scroll to the bottom and the back button actually works.

http://bit.ly/VrakyP

Anyone who wants to put more effort into it is welcome...here is the short python script I wrote to fetch and display the games.

http://pastebin.com/47s3RQQ0

The API actually returns the image links so it could be made much prettier as well as information that would make paging fairly simple. I suppose if we hear something official that says the new interface is here to stay I might look into it more.