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Description

On RecentChanges and Watchlist, the list always starts at the latest change. There's no pagination or specifying a date to start the list from. So if you want to view older changes, e.g. when the list is inundated by changes to a few pages or when you've come back from a break, all you can do is increase the number of changes, which is capped at 500 (unless you use the non-JS interface and manually edit the URL, but even then you can only increase it so much). This results in slower page load and poor performance, not to mention you might not even be able to go as far back as you want.

Previous wishlist surveys: 2023

Assigned focus area
Type of wish
Feature request
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Affected users

Editors, patrollers, infrequent editors

Phabricator tasks
Other details
  • Created: 08:19, 21 August 2024
  • Last updated: 16:28, 10 October 2025
  • Author: Nardog (talk)
Voting

This wish currently has 6 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish
Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 16:37, 8 October 2025
Support agree Chicagodogs (talk) 17:07, 8 October 2025
Support More or less a duplicate of W422: Increase the maximum number of edits and days to show in the Watchlist which came later but I think has a clearer title and some extra info esp. in regards to potential solutions like mentioning lazy-loading Prototyperspective (talk) 12:40, 10 October 2025
Support I don't think this is a duplicate of that wish; being able to scroll back is different from having a wider window but still being stuck at the start. Pppery (talk) 16:18, 10 October 2025
Support Velmi důležité, už to mělo existovat dávno, nejlépe od dob vzniku wiki. Marek Genius (talk) 17:27, 12 October 2025
Support Jmabel (talk) 00:48, 5 December 2025