[quote=Jorick]
EDIT ADDITION: Better page controls - Now that we have pages, time to complain about them! You're welcome, Mahz. Anyway, basic functionality like first page and last page buttons would be great. There was also some other stuff going on with the old page controls that would be nice to have, like the nearby page numbers to be able to click and skip a few pages at once rather than just the first or last page button. I feel like I'm describing this poorly, so here's an image of the old page controls to show what I mean:Exact replication is obviously unnecessary, but having first and last page buttons as well as some way to easily navigate to a specific page would be great. 
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Haha, definitely agreed.

Ideally it would behave as you point out.

[1] 2 3 4 5 ... Last
1 [2] 3 4 5 ... Last
1 2 [3] 4 5 ... Last
First ... 2 3 [4] 5 6 ... Last
First ... 3 4 [5] 6 7
First ... 3 4 5 [6] 7
First ... 3 4 5 6 [7]

In other news, I'm testing Private Message right now, so that's almost done finally.