It's just, like, one of those things, man. Because the print view doesn't provide navigation, etc. and isn't really optimized for reading onscreen (not that most media sites *are*...) and, well, it just plain annoys the shit outta me.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> An acceptable compromise would be to let me toggle pagination on/off as a feature, say, if I register as a user. That seems like more of a win/win, actually, because then I don't have to flip through 4 pages to read a 500 word article (*cough*NEWSWEEK!*cough*) and you get another happily registered user on which you can begin compiling demo data to sell to advertisers. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> Of course, this pre-supposes a user-registration system...
posted by Jim Ray at 2007-04-19 18:36:12 
It's never bothered me, and I had not realized it was a source of annoyance to others.
posted by Ang at 2007-04-19 18:39:33
It bothers me to my very core.
posted by Tyler at 2007-04-19 18:39:49
In news sites I am undecided. I'd love it if most news sites had a toggle that could be saved in my cookie which allowed me to turn off pagination. Sometimes I like pagination and sometimes I don't. It mostly depends on article length.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> But in technical documents or tutorials I hate it. I want to be able to search across the whole article with my in browser 'find' which pagination breaks.
posted by bryan kennedy at 2007-04-19 18:44:50
Drives me crazy. I hate clicking and clicking, I hate finding the "next" button every time, I hate the unformatted print versions, I hate looking for a term I searched for, I hate not being able to quickly look back for something I missed, I hate paging back so I can link someone.
posted by Nick Douglas at 2007-04-19 19:03:18
i hate paginated stories! in addition to the above-noted things i like to be able to tell based on the right hand scroll bar how far thru a story i am / how long the story is, and pagination ruins that.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> f**ing pagination. i hate it. useless distracting clicks, what are the point.
posted by zak sharman at 2007-04-19 19:12:51
It bothers me to Tyler's core.
posted by Mike D. at 2007-04-19 19:36:57
I hate it, but it's made better with the NextPlease Firefox extension.
posted by Brad at 2007-04-19 21:15:09
If pagination makes one angry enough to rant about one is either a) a professional ranter who should be ignored or b) someone who is blessedly free of real problems
posted by paul at 2007-04-19 23:28:41
It bugs me in a small way each time. So its ubiquity definitely does bother me, in the aggregate.
posted by Jake at 2007-04-20 09:18:45
It bothers me, because the paginated stories always seem to come whenever a site is slowest. It's a Murphy's Law thing, I guess. Just give me the friggin' story and don't make me play hide and seek. The first such time this occured to me was in 1998 when I...<br /><br /> <br /><br /> |1|2|3|4|5|->END<br /><br />
posted by Safran at 2007-04-20 16:32:38
Goddamn, yes it bothers me.
posted by marc at 2007-04-21 20:06:54
Don't knock article pagination until you tried to run a free web service that is advertising driven. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> CPM is still king in advertising no matter how much everyone would prefer user-attention metrics.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> If it bothers you you could only visit sites you subscribe to, or just go *buy* your daily papers. There's still no free lunch, not even for internet consumers ;>
posted by Ted Rheingold at 2007-04-23 14:31:07
Dear Ted:<br /><br /> <br /><br /> Newspapers have pagination, too. You know, pages. That's the nice thing about using a totally different medium--you're not limited by all of the old constraints.<br /><br /> <br /><br /> And just because CPM is everyone's revenue source doesn't mean it should be, or that people have no right to complain about inelegant and user-inconveniencing information presentation.
posted by Jake at 2007-04-24 07:29:37
