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@mfs12 Glad you found the problem, great work!

Hi All-

This is an interesting topic- I understand and agree with the reasoning behind the change, but I've got to say that it's pretty frustrating to use now after trying to get used to it for a few days.

Edit: it seems to me that the reasonings behind the change make sense on the surface, but are actually made worse by the change...

I Ctrl-F'd my way around the page very easily using keywords I thought would be in the documentation for the gcode i was looking for, and IMO the search feature at the top (which disappears if you aren't at the very top...) is not a suitable alternative to being able to search within the monolithic document. You also lose the ability to freely scroll around to look at adjacent and possibly related gcodes.

I used to be able to keep the Gcode page pinned in my tabs, a single resource while I'm working, now I have to think a lot harder about what keywords I should look for that would fit in a single sentence summary of that gcode, then open it in a new tab once I find it. That all involves more tab identification and switching, more clicking around, more load times... its just overall clunkier.

I see others talking about the marlin documentation, personally i'm not a fan of that either, but one improvement i'd take from that is keeping the sidebar index on the page when you're viewing the documentation of a single gcode. I'm not sure if thats possible with how you have it set up on dozuki. The individual pages feel completely disconnected and isolated from every other gcode, even related ones, as well as from the index itself.

Unfortunately I'm not sure what a good middleground solution would be between ease of page development and user experience that fits within dozuki's structure and technical limits, im not familiar with the platform. As far as slow loading times, I always thought the loading time of the monolithic page was very reasonable, I never gave it a second thought. Having to load new pages for every entry i click on though i am definitely noticing.
As far as serverside performance, that seems like an issue to be solved another way, its just text. Forgive me as I haven't touched web dev in years but shouldn't serverside caching take care of that?

Either way, measurement with brower cache disabled of the old page's loading time/size vs the current one demonstrates a noticeable difference for sure, but IMO not a worthwhile one. I might be in the minority not noticing another second when I open the wonderful compendium that is the RRF Gcode Dictionary. And with browser caching its less than that.

Side note, a gcode lookup in DWC like you mentioned sounds amazing.

Seth