We’ve added “Newer posts | Older posts” links to Signal vs. Noise so you can page through posts without using the archives. (Scroll down to the end of 37signals.com/svn to find link for the next page of posts.) This allows visitors to read the backlog with minimal clicking as opposed to having to select individual posts in the archives.
meks
on 07 Jan 10Welcome to the 2000s!
Tobias
on 07 Jan 10Why are the newer Posts to the left ant the older to the right? This doesnt feel right (left=older, right=newer like http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/posts_nav_link does).
But great to finally have a way to use the archive easily, like meks said :).
Henrik N
on 07 Jan 10Good that you went with “Newer posts”/”Older posts” instead of the common and highly ambiguous “Next”/”Previous”.
Mike B
on 07 Jan 10I was wondering how you would implement this. For as simple and common as this functionality is, there really doesn’t seem to be a standard yet. I’d go with future on the right because, according to Roger Ebert “The future seems to live on the right, the past on the left.” The language is the more important part though.
Dan
on 07 Jan 10We had a long debate at spokt regarding if it were older on the left, newer on the right or older:right, newer:left.
We ended up going with the opposite of what I wanted and what you’ve done here.
EH
on 07 Jan 10when reading a book, the future is to the right and the past is to the left.
Tekin
on 07 Jan 10It would also make sense to be able to easily jump between posts themselves. Maybe a links at the bottom of each post going forward and/or back. That would give new visitors arriving via an external somewhere to go for more once they’ve finished reading.
George
on 08 Jan 10Feels very weird to me. The past is to the left. Is that just me? Does anyone look for the past on the right?
AC
on 09 Jan 10For me, newer posts live to the left and older to the right and I always have to think when it’s done the other way.
If the posts are archived on pages containing many posts each, how should these pages be numbered?
I would think: 1 2 3 4 5 (and so on) where page 1 contains the newest posts (to the left). I’m not sure how I would do it if the future is to the right?
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