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In Fluther, how do you get to the earliest page of the list of your answers or questions?

Asked by flo (13313points) May 4th, 2013

And let’s say you have tons and tons of them, and let’s say you just want to make a printout.

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Berserker's avatar

Click on either questions or responses, and then go to the bottom of the list. You have no choice but to click on the numbers until you reach the first questions/answers.

At least, I don’t know of any way to do it faster, unless you know exactly what you’re looking for and do a search of it on here. Otherwise, you have to slog through all the numbers…which I imagine must take forever for the responses, especially. ;/

Although if there is a faster way, I’d love to know it myself.

dxs's avatar

There are 15 comments per page and you have 3183 total comments. 3813 divided by 15 is about 212. This is the ballpark number of pages of comments you have.
Now you can plug in the number 212 in your answers url:
http://www.fluther.com/users/flo/answers/?page=212 (I entered in the number 212 at the end)
The page doesn’t exist, so it’s less than that. I plugged in 206 next:
http://www.fluther.com/users/flo/answers/?page=206
Too little. (I can now tell that the last page is 210 because that is where the page numbers stop on the bottom of page 206.)
Page 210 is your earliest page.
http://www.fluther.com/users/flo/answers/?page=210
=======
For questions, do the same thing. 368 divided by 15 is about 25. http://www.fluther.com/users/flo/questions/?page=1
Change the 1 to a 25.
http://www.fluther.com/users/flo/questions/?page=25
Look at that! 25 exactly!

RandomGirl's avatar

@dxs: Wow! So clever and simple! Thanks much!

talljasperman's avatar

http://www.fluther.com/1/whats-so-special-about-salt-and-pepper/ is the first question… I just changed the number to 1

glacial's avatar

@talljasperman Ah, but did you visit the question? ;)

talljasperman's avatar

@glacial Salt and Pepper are the names of my first kittens.

flo's avatar

@dxs I haven’t tried it myself but thanks a lot.
@talljasperman You happen to remember it but it is about how to get there if yoy didn’t.

augustlan's avatar

@dxs Has got it right. A little math, a little guesswork, and voila!

gailcalled's avatar

@dxs: Having been here since 2006, I have over 32,000 answers. Unless I am doing something wrong, (entirely possible), your algorithm doesn work for those large numbers.
After p.200 and something, I get bounced to google.

Can I figure this out. Or better yet, can you?

dxs's avatar

@gailcalled Yours only goes up to 2126. pfft…ONLY…
I think it is because the total response number on the tab includes moderated responses, but those moderated responses do not show up on the list. To verify this, I know for a fact that my first response in this quip, made only one day ago, is the one that is moderated and does not show up in the list of my responses. The original response started off as “Isn’t next week mother’s day?...” and was edited to ”[removed for now…]”, and neither show up on my list of responses.

gailcalled's avatar

@dxs: I believe that I laboriously typed in the URL with …/users/gail/answers/?=21??

instead of …/users/gailcalled/answers/?= 21??.... Too late now to experiment. I’ll fiddle with this tomorrow.

I did get the answers number pretty close; 32,00/15.

flo's avatar

Thanks again @dxs.

gailcalled's avatar

edit; Damn. 32.000/15

dxs's avatar

32,000/15?

gailcalled's avatar

That gets me to the c. 2,021 to insert in the URL you gave me. Doesn’t it?

dxs's avatar

What?

flo's avatar

@gailcalled was correcting herself, it is 32,000 not 3,200, that much I know.

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