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You sound like you're offended that someone even asked.
Nope. Not offended, but any more link elements... even just an extra one or two to jump back 5 or 10 pages... would break the layout for a lot of mobile users.
When I did the original work on what pagination to use, and looked at the usage of the vBulletin site. I did see people trying to navigate using multi-page jumps... and was amused how many jumps it took to achieve reaching their destination. And for this, vBulletin would put in these huge navigation controls, which they rendered in smaller fonts because they wouldn't fit on a desktop screen otherwise.
We're mobile friendly by default, and you may have a high-res mobile screen or phablet, but a lot of users do not. In designing for this I went back to thinking how to offer the multi-page or any page navigation (the other thing I saw were random jumps - I suspect people were editing query strings in the URL bar). And the controls for these cannot be in a reduced font as they need to be buttons for fat fingers on a touch screen.
This is basically why we only have a few buttons for the 98% common actions, and page numbers for the 2% actions.
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having a multi-page jump.
It's not a major thing but I see it onother websitesPornHubftfy
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If you want to go back a week or two, or a month or two, in a thread it's just easier if you can go back more than one page at a time. Even five or six would be quicker. And why is typing bad? it's not, it's just not as quick and easy as having a multi-page jump.
It's not a major thing but I see it on other websites and just wondered if it was possible here. You sound like you're offended that someone even asked.