Increase the number of posts per page?

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  1. Diesel

    Diesel Regular Member

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    Is it possible to increase the number of posts per page in multi-page posts?

    Personally, I'd like having the option of having the entire thread all on one page, but if that's not an option, I'd say that it would be a good idea to increase the number to say, 20 or 25 posts per page.

    As it is, a thread develops multiple pages way too quickly, IMHO, and increasing the number of posts on each page wouldn't increase the size of the page to be served (which is the only reason I can think to make the number of posts as small as 15) that much.

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  2. Chimpi

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    The only real downside that *I* can see with this is it'll load slower for 56K users, but not much at all.

    I say it's a very good idea. And yes, I agree, it is too little, and too many topics have too many pages

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  3. Diesel

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    Nap> The load for modem users was what I was alluding to when I said "wouldn't increase the size of the page to be served that much".
    If it's increased to, say 20, how much larger could the page size really get? Would it get larger? Yes, but unwieldly so? Doubtful.


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    i'm all for it - ideally the user could choose a number of messages per page, but that's probably outside alien's control

    also when you reply and it has those condensed summaries without avatars and sigs, that'd be a nice option to have to view the whole thread

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  5. Alien

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    While making it a user-definable setting is currently outside my abilities, I will increase it a bit. Let me run a speed test on the difference between 15 and 25 and get back to ya.

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    Increased to 25 per page, up from 15.

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  7. jadedskies

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    Ah cool, should be good.

    BTW...is there any way (I dunno whether this is available with UBB, but I've seen it with vBulletin) that after 10 pages or so in one thread, you can just have a link to last page, therefore avoiding links to 75 different pages...?

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    This feature is not available on UBB and on VB it can be set to whatever you want... it could do it say after 6 pages instead.
    Also a feature on VB is that users can define how many posts they wish to see per page, whice would be pretty cool .

    P.S. I know Alien is probably getting a little fed up with my posts about VB, so sorry... I will try not to do it anymore .
     
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