Addons-frontend: Allow readers to prefer more than 25 per page

[grahamperrin]

With desktop Firefox at addons.mozilla.org I often find myself with dozens of pages of results.

Not through laziness – contributory factors include Improve relevancy of search results · Issue #2661 · mozilla/addons-server – I too often feel that I'm _wading_ through page after page after page …

Enhancement request

Please allow greater numbers of add-ons per page.

The UI to the preference should probably be at the head of the list of results, not the foot.

I would often prefer unlimited (non-paginated) but that's probably a power use edge case.

A less eyebrow-raising set of visible preferences might be:

• 25
• 50
• 100

– plus for power users, a hidden option to set any greater number by manually editing the URL.

Thanks

[grahamperrin]

I wasn't aware of (or had completely forgotten) the _View Mobile Site_ switch –sorry!

Now https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?q=wayback+machine looks good to me.

[grahamperrin]

In retrospect, the _looking good_ might have been my lack of familiarity with the new.

Now for example https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?featured=true&type=extension&sort=name is spread across three pages with no way to make them all in one.

Very frustrating when I'm trying to rediscover an extension that has disappeared (OT: maybe an issue with Firefox Sync), and when those three pages may be just the starting point. The less pagination, the better.

Please consider reopening this issue – thanks.

[kumar303]

Yes, it seems worth re-opening this so we can consider it along with other feature requests. Thanks.

[Tanookirby]

How about add another option to allow infinite scrolling? This could apply to all lists on the site (addons, reviews, versions, etc.). As you near the end of a section, the contents of the next page would added.

[kumar303]

allow infinite scrolling?

Personally, I can't stand these UIs because I have a hard time coming to a stopping point. That's probably just me being a weirdo though.

[tofumatt]

Shoot, I thought I responded to this. But yes I too dislike infinite scrolling. It's also an easy way for pages to consume lots of memory on mobile, but worse it means users can never reach the footer. I don't think scrolling to the bottom of the page is a good enough signifier of intent to load more content.

[muffinresearch]

Relates to https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/1971 which would make this easier.

[muffinresearch]

1971 has been fixed so you can now specify manually a page_size parameter to a search response and the pagination is correctly calculated.

To fix this issue we'd need to expose an option to set a page size that's different to the default in the UI.

[grahamperrin]

Thanks,

https://addons.mozilla.org/search/?type=extension&sort=created&page_size=100

– seems to return fifty results (not one hundred), is fifty a hard limit?

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