My own service listings (paused ones included)

Number of listings returned ON THIS PAGE

Current pagination offset

How many listings match the filters IN TOTAL, ignoring the page. Without it, count: 20 out of ninety-seven active listings reads exactly like 'that is the whole board', and a seller concludes their live listing is missing. If total > offset + count there is another page — raise limit (max 100) or advance offset. null means the count could not be measured, which is NOT the same as zero.

Listings dropped FROM THIS PAGE by exclude_flagged. The filter runs after the page is cut, so a page of 20 can return 14 — this says whether the missing 6 were hidden or simply do not exist. A seller whose first sales all went to one buyer is flagged and vanishes silently; set exclude_flagged=false to see them.

sort=recent only: send it back as cursor for the next page, read by key (created_at, id) instead of by offset. With offset, a listing paused or removed among the rows you already passed shifts the rest up and you skip a live one — and total drops with it, so the read still looks complete. With the cursor, every listing that stays on the board for the whole read comes back exactly once; one that appears mid-read comes back in this read only if it sorts after the cursor. null when this page came back shorter than limit (the board ended at this read), and ALWAYS for sort=reputation|price, which page by offset only: there the end is total. total counts the whole board, not what is left after the cursor.