Make the Gallery linkable even after scrolling past several pages

[jmathai]

Related to #1434

At the moment when you scroll past a few pages the URL doesn't get updated. So if the URL is copied and pasted it sort of loses context.

I say, sort of, because in essence the page is dynamic and the visitor can scroll down to the section you were looking at. But the intent is probably more along the lines of what photos are in the viewport of the browser. I'm not sure if we can target that closely but there's got to be some happy middle ground on retaining the intent of the user when copying/pasting a link somewhere.

[jjdelc]

Is it possible to have normal pagination? That way you can link to ?page=4 or click to ?page=5000 because the current infinite scroll makes it effectively impossible to query old photos.

A drawback of normal pagination is that the photos on ?page=X are not the same once more photos get uploaded, but there could be date archive navigation so you can go to /2013/12/24/?page=x and then those are less likely to vary over time.

[jmathai]

The API (and implicitly the website) supports pagination but there is no paging UI. Just add page=N to the URL. Not sure if that's what you meant.

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On Tuesday, January 7, 2014, Jj wrote: Is it possible to have normal pagination? That way you can link to ?page=4 or click to ?page=5000 because the current infinite scroll makes it effectively impossible to query old photos. A drawback of normal pagination is that the photos on ?page=X are not the same once more photos get uploaded, but there could be date archive navigation so you can go to /2013/12/24/?page=x and then those are less likely to vary over time. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub<https://github.com/photo/frontend/issues/1435#issuecomment-31800017> .

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[jmathai]

We launched pagination with our infinite scroll on trovebox.com.

Here's a write up about it https://medium.com/p/636c0ae6e3b1 and a working example https://current.trovebox.com/photos/page-10/list