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From #15646:

4. Search pagination: when one is browsing through a forum, particularly one with a lot of pages of posts, the pagination is a bit wonky. When one is on, say, the 7th page of results of a forum with 129 pages of posts, the choices for moving forward are: 1 2 3 …6 7 8 …127 128 129. I think we should show at least two or three pages forward from where one is to help people move forward more quickly. Or, perhaps, we could add a box where people could skip ahead to a particular page of results.

I think that we can tweak, so that maybe we show "1 2 ... 5 6 7 8 9 ... 128 129".

Adding a box for people to skip to a certain page of results is possible, but harder. This seems like a case where (a) the majority of groups won't have that many pages where this change will make a huge difference, and (b) jumping around pagination (as opposed to going one or two pages at a time) is not likely to be a great way to find something in a group, and (c) modern apps, for better or for worse, seem to have mostly abandoned the idea of pagination as a navigational concept. Seems better to ensure that search works well; see #15648. For these reasons I'd recommend not pouring lots of dev resources into overhauling the pagination interface.