Recent changes is getting swamped. I often find "junk" entries which haven't been cleaned up some 12 hours after creation -- this did not happen, say, 6 months ago.
The problem is that to catch up with the site, I (and other I presume) need to load some 2,500 edits from Recent changes That's over 1MB of HTML, it takes forever to load, and there's no knowing how far back it goes. This morning I had to load 1,500, then 2,000, then finally 2500 to find my last edit.
We need something that lists from a particular date *forwards* for a certain number of entires, as well as current behavious *back* from the present.
What I sugest is this: something that behaves in the opposite way to the "from date D, limit L" syntax in the RC URL. This currently does: "list up to L entries newer than date D, starting from the present and going back toward older entries" This always includes the most recent edit, but not necessarily the date D edit if L is small.
I would like to be able to request: "list up to L entries newer than date D, starting from *date D itself* and going forward" This would always include the date D edit, and not necessarily the most recent edit if L is small. Hope that makes sense. I don't mean that the list order should be reversed -- date D would still be at the foot of the page, newer edits at the top.
With this feature, I could go through these in 500-item chunks, starting from when I logged off and working my way through.
A link on the Recent Changes page would be nice -- something that lists: {number of edits as set in preferences} forwards from date marked at top
We'd be able to copy this link to bookmarks on logging off, and resume from the same place next time