614105 - There is an awful lot of pages and not enough links

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs Graveyard :: Personas Plus, enhancement)

Description

[Sylvain D]

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As you can see, there is currently 5213 pages of personas, and this is good. b ut what if you want to see page 123 to see a personas a few days/weeks ago?

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
You have to click a lot of times in the pages links to find the page you're looking for.

Expected Results:  
What if you just put a test field that browses to the typed page number?
all it will do is to fill the url with the field's content, but a "standard" user won't think of this solution.

Comment 1

[Jennifer Morrow [:Boriss] (UX)]

Thanks for the comment, drown.  We do have a lot of personas!  But since we're always getting new ones, the page a personas is on in a category shifts.  If you're looking for a particular persona, it may help to copy the URL of that persona rather than the page it's on.  You can also search for a particular persona in the upper right.  

If you do want to skip ahead in a category, you can modify the URL - for instance going from page 5

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/Movers/5

to page 333

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/Movers/333

Comment 2

[Sylvain D]

Maybe my statement wasn't clear. It's more a "I saw that earlier but I forgot to save the link somewhere" (I guess)

The original idea was here:
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-personas/browse_frm/thread/37ff470311fc1378/57711e8cb70944f6?hl=en&tvc=1&q=About+Design+of+GetPersonas.com#57711e8cb70944f6

And you may not think of bookmarking a persona until you need it. (exemple, you see a persona that is nice but you don't need (exemple, it's for NY knicks fans and you don't care about sports). A few days later you meet a friend who might be interested in this persona (the one with the nice NY knicks cap) and tell him I saw that nice persona a few times ago.

The two options:
- keep going 6 pages at a time unil you find it.

- prove you know what an URL is and use your brain. (I can do it, you can do it, according to a study I read on mozilla's planet, Most South Korean don't even know what an URL is, my mother won't think of it, etc...)

I'm afraid most people would use solution 1. (even if I'd love to be wrong)


I'd like to reconsider the "wontfix" status.