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It would only look odd when viewing page 1.
So...
Make Page 1 odd for all (and it's the latest page under your scheme so everyone gets to experience this oddness).
Even though this new page fail thing sounds like it only affects those who ignore others which make up an unbelievably small slice of the user base.
Does it not sound a bit screwed up to inflict a sub par experience on all, for the sake of such a small minority when even within the minority only an even smaller minority have what they feel is an issue?
Velocio-
Make Page 1 odd for all (and it's the latest page under your scheme so everyone gets to experience this oddness).
The first page is not the latest page. It is the first page, with the oldest posts on. There is no change of date order. Just that under this suggestion it may have fewer posts displayed on it.
Even though this new page fail thing sounds like it only affects those who ignore others which make up an unbelievably small slice of the user base.
The suggestion is not aimed at being a fix for new page fail. At all. It just came out of that conversation.
I just felt that it sounded intriguing as an idea.
Long threads very rarely have their first page viewed. They often have their last page viewed. Why not make that page always "complete"?
All of your replies so far have misunderstood the suggestion. Probably my fault.
mashton
Not at all.
Just put the page breaks at different points:
3, 50, 50 in date ascending order.
Rather than:
50, 50, 3 in date asc order.
It would only look odd when viewing page 1. The advantage is that the latest comments have the maximum chance of having the appropriate context on the same page.