>user is manually performing a binary search on the results
Imagine a large forum topic. The user is just seeking through time. A deep pagination here is when the user knows what they're searching for is more than 1 page away.
The user would have to know a snippet of text or an explicit date range for your search box to help, so what about all the times they don't or if their filters are insufficient? This is why forums have both deep pagination and a search box.
It would be cruel to make the user paginate one page at a time just like it'd be unbearable if Youtube didn't let you jump 10 minutes at a time.
Obviously not every pagination needs deep pagination, but that's between you and your users, and it's what came to mind when I read that article.
Imagine a large forum topic. The user is just seeking through time. A deep pagination here is when the user knows what they're searching for is more than 1 page away.
The user would have to know a snippet of text or an explicit date range for your search box to help, so what about all the times they don't or if their filters are insufficient? This is why forums have both deep pagination and a search box.
It would be cruel to make the user paginate one page at a time just like it'd be unbearable if Youtube didn't let you jump 10 minutes at a time.
Obviously not every pagination needs deep pagination, but that's between you and your users, and it's what came to mind when I read that article.