Friday Facts pages: navigation between pages

speedaaah · Post by **speedaaah** » Tue Jan 02, 2018 3:05 pm

TL;DR

I would like to have some buttons/links on top of each fff-page, for going to the previous and the next page, in order to go through the fffs more easily while reading them.

What ?

This is how a Factorio Friday Facts page looks now:

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There is already a link to the all posts page, in order to get to the next or previous page, you can

edit the url, or
go back to the start page or to the fff overview page via links and open another, or
open multiple pages at once from there and go through them.

What I would like to have are 2 additional links or buttons or sth. like that to navigate to the surrounding pages as can be seen here:

: fff-page-with-links.PNG (314.18 KiB) Viewed 2894 times

or here:

: fff-page-with-buttons.PNG (335.76 KiB) Viewed 2894 times

Why ?

I think it would make it easier to go through the fffs while reading them as it reduces the effort to change the page letting the reader focus on reading

This wouldn't improve the game itself but the factorio experience as whole.

Thanks for reading and happy new Year

seePyou · Post by **seePyou** » Wed Jan 03, 2018 2:00 pm

Would be good, although I now just change the number on the URL... works ok I guess...
http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-13
http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-18
http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-132
http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-265
etc...

speedaaah · Post by **speedaaah** » Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:03 pm

Yeah, that's right, I do it this way myself, but I think it doesn't hurt to suggest a (hopefully) better way

Tekky · Post by **Tekky** » Fri Jan 05, 2018 4:59 pm

One problem is that the blog contains some entries that are not Factorio Friday Facts. Should the forward/back buttons only jump between FFFs or also other blog entries?

Jap2.0 · Post by **Jap2.0** » Sat Jan 06, 2018 5:44 am

I'm going to say that either would work, but maybe yes. The last time something like that was posted was nearly 2 years ago, and the last one before that was 3 1/2.

WarDaft · Post by **WarDaft** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:41 am

I love the FFF. But as a rule, I binge read things like this infrequently, rather than stay up to date every week, and manually changing the URL for the next one each time is annoying, especially considering typos.

I believe this would not be a difficult change.

Tekky · Post by **Tekky** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:49 am

This has already been suggested and discussed in the following thread:

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=56080 Friday Facts pages: navigation between pages

EDIT: Meanwhile, the threads have been merged. Therefore, my above link now points to the current thread.

Post by **Koub** » Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:45 pm

[Koub] Merged into older topic with same suggestion

bobingabout · Post by **bobingabout** » Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:35 am

I'd appreciate a previous and next button.

troutinator · Post by **troutinator** » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:18 pm

Yes please. I just came back to factorio after about a year and am trying to catch up on Friday Facts...the URL method works, but is annoying, especially on mobile.

It seems like it should be fairly easy to script from a templating engine perspective. Not sure how the blogs are managed, but even every friday just adding a next button onto last weeks post manually would be 2-3 minutes and save cumulative hours of player time.

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