Jump to page is impractical at scale. You see that Gmail and Google search don't offer explicit jump-t0-page.
Indeed. Not everything needs to immediately "scale" on such level, though. (I've noticed tolerable load time for values around skip=5000.) Also, as noted, will_paginate (ie. the first-class drop-in pagination for Rails apps) depends on "jump to page", unless I am seriously mistaken.
You can however, jump by natural key (so you can jump to May 5th, or whatever) which I think is more useful than jump to page 14.
Yes, that's a very good idea. Date, first letter of surname, etc. I guess it would be possible to do it in will_paginate style. In an ideal world, that's precisely what a Ruby gem for working with Couch would provide out of the box.
Thanks!, Karel
