NationStates Jolt Archive

Lists of nations and regions are incredibly long, yet there are links only to pages at the beginning and end of the list and near the current page. It would be a good idea to have some way to move to the inner reaches of a list more efficiently. Some suggestions follow:


An alphabet to reach nations/regions beginning with a given letter.

Links for next/previous page, move 10 pages forward/backward, move 100 pages forward/backward.

Instead of the first few, last few, and surrounding few, have
first, last, next, previous, half-way from here to the beginning of list, half-way from here to end of list. This ends up being fewer choices, but easier/faster navigation. (binary search is one of my favorite tricks)


I look forward to discussion of these and other possibilities, and implementation of anything that makes list navigation faster.

You could always open the world overview out of the frame and then navigate by changing the "start=30" part to what you wish.

edit: or "start=whatevernumberonthelisyouwanttostartwith"

I think the mods have had similar suggestions before, but Sal or Hack have come in each time and either said:

We're working on thisor
Not going to happen
In their usual, blunt, to-the-point manner.

Edit: Found it! Hack said that he didn't feel like re-writing the search code here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7727216&postcount=2

It is a nice idea though.

Links for next/previous page, move 10 pages forward/backward, move 100 pages forward/backward.To move through the list of nations rapidly type:

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=list_nations/start=xxxx.

Each new page is 15 higher than the previous one so if you were on start=300, to move forward 10 pages you would change to start=450 and to move backwards 10 pages, start=150.

The link for regions is

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=list_regions/start=xxxx.

Moving around is done by the same method, adding or subtracting 15 per page.

Thank you very much!
Please post or TG any similar tricks you know of.
I like knowing work-arounds to get things done.

I have reason to believe that I had just explained this.

Oh well, I suppose I must have done so ambiguouslu.

Please post or TG any similar tricks you know of. You'll have to ask specific questions because there's too much stuff to know which things you're interested in. Actually, you can just page through the old threads on this forum for tips.

I have reason to believe that I had just explained this. You did but your explanation was non-specific and Whimception has only been playing about a week and isn't necessarily familiar with the url's.