Chat Archive Pagination making search impossible.

I run a text game of 5e where we will often use the chat as a reference to previous events and notes, as well as simply being able to read through old chat logs for fun. The new pagination does help decrease the time it takes to load the page, but it unfortunately makes searching for individual words or events nigh-impossible because of the way the pages are laid out, considering CTRL-F only searches for what is on the current page. Is there a way to revert the pagination on individual games?

You might want to follow the conversation and developments in this thread .

Can't seem to follow that link, for some reason. Every time I try it takes me back to my roll20 start page.

Seth V. said: Can't seem to follow that link, for some reason. Every time I try it takes me back to my roll20 start page. The thread keithcurtis linked is in the Pro section of the forums, so is only available if you sub at that level.

Derp. He's right. That's the thread that's in the wrong place. Although, this might work best in Bug Reports. Kraynic said: Seth V. said: Can't seem to follow that link, for some reason. Every time I try it takes me back to my roll20 start page. The thread keithcurtis linked is in the Pro section of the forums, so is only available if you sub at that level.

Is there any information on this for those of us that are only plus accounts?  I really need to be able to search and save from the chat archive, but that is impossible if things are broken into 2000 pages.  This is terrible!  Revert please!

Oh yes, bonus, because things aren't confusing enough with this terrible pagination thing.  It somehow undeleted old cleared chat history that had long ago been saved off and removed from the game to make our history easier to handle.

And to rub salt in this wound, newer is higher in the collection, so instead of removing pagination from the log and doing some other trimming... I have to copy-paste each chunk into a readable format.

Mirabelle R. said: Is there any information on this for those of us that are only plus accounts?  I really need to be able to search and save from the chat archive, but that is impossible if things are broken into 2000 pages.  This is terrible!  Revert please! This Roll20 response was given in the Pro thread: Drespar  said: Hi everyone! Sorry for the dust! This is a fix to help with games that had inaccessible chat archives. We are working on more changes to this presently and will continue work on improving format without re-breaking larger archives.

Maybe they can give us an option to use the old format then....because we really need it.

Perhaps the ability to download the whole thing, or better, a range of pages as a single file. That could be searched offline, faster.

Yes, it's nearly impossible to use the search function and back up one's archive through page download this way, I have no idea why they had to "fix" what isn't broken. I feel like I'm paying for things to get worse instead of better. At least give the option to go back to the old chat archive mode.

I second those suggestions already mentioned above - I'd love to have the option to download the entire archive, search the full archive, and/or view the old single-page archive.