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The Site => Site Suggestions & Support => Topic started by: furiousfrank on June 23, 2008, 05:29:56 AM
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Is there any way to change the number of posts and topics shown on each page? I've looked through all the settings on my profile and can't find anything.
It would make things a bit easier to read especially in boards like MacAnally's where there are so many stickies that only about eight actual topics show up and threads often extend for 10+ pages.
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Nope.
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We've experimented with a larger number of posts per page, but the amount of bandwidth required crashes the server. Sorry!
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This is nonsense, and hugely limits the usability of the forums. Please sort it out.
One work around at least would be to get all the stickies listed under one post, per forum.
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If the options are the current number of posts per page and the server being up, or more posts and the server crashing all the time...
I'll keep the status quo, thanks.
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I'm with Katty. Crashes = bad. I twitch enough already, thank you.
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There are hundreds of options to explore, such as; Optimizing Stored Procedures, Table index's, Views, Server upgrades, Migrating the forum or Moving host, to name just a few.
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All of which take time, which Iago might not have. I'm personally happy he keeps the forums running as well as they do. Having to switch pages isn't that much of a burden.
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This is nonsense, and hugely limits the usability of the forums. Please sort it out.
One work around at least would be to get all the stickies listed under one post, per forum.
It does not "hugely limit the usability of the forums" and it is not "nonsense." This is something we've tinkered with over time, and ten posts per page is the most stable system. It's not going to change. Don't talk to us like we're stupid, or like we're neglecting our user base.
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I'll bet he's an only child.
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I for one am intensely interested in how the long time during which I've thoroughly enjoyed the forums (and found them eminently usable) is somehow "nonsense". I strongly suspect the best "sorting-out" indicated would NOT be on the part of the forums used but on that of a particular user - perhaps learning some freaking ADAPTABILITY would sort THAT problem out.
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Shecky, imo its better to fix a problem than work around it because you don't know how. Sounds like your a typical worse is better convert.
Priscellie, this board is for suggestions, the OP made a good one, but you basically ignored him rather than find a fix, this is nonsense.
If you are forced to see 10 stickies each time you visit the first page of a board which only contains 20 posts than that is the very definition of hugely limited usability. I wonder what google analitics has to say about the number of users forced to wade through pages of paging.
Regards
Rusty
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Rusty -
Iago, the OWNER OF THE BOARD has tried other workarounds. The board was crashing very hour. At this point, the choices are quite literally post limits per page, or not having a board that works all the time. I'll take door #2. This board is free. Iago doesn't have to do this. If this works for him, it's fine with me.
YMM (and clearly does) V.
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Rusty, as soon as I see a problem here, I'll be among the people asking for it to be fixed. Unless you're trying to dig back to the FAR past in a forum, why do you need to "wade through pages"? What is nonsense is "needing" to see umpteen threads per page when, as Priscellie politely said to you (and you called "ignored" and "nonsense"), the most stable system for this board is exactly what you see, not to mention when the rest of us obviously are not quiveringly indignant over this faux "issue". The only "worse" here is the insistence that destabilizing the system is an acceptable side effect in order to save you an extra half second while surfing the boards. FF was actually polite about it, but you're turning it into a Big Deal.
People, you're seeing problems where none exist. "Next Page" works just fine.
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<sigh>
This is my last post on the issue.
I have been polite throughtout the thread, and don't take back any of the points I've made.
I think your looking for a battle, but I'm really not interested.
Rusty
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I have been polite throughtout the thread
Sounds like your a typical worse is better convert.
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you basically ignored him rather than find a fix, this is nonsense.
This is nonsense
I am sensing from you.... wait a minute, it's coming to me... wet feet? Yes, and... hmm... what's that in the distance... yes, pyramids.
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At least we can all agree this discussion is over.
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Seems to me that 'us' newbies could be a bit less demanding and a bit more polite. As long as we're guests we might behave as guests. But hey, what do I know?
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I think it didn't help that there may have been some misunderstanding going on. Not sure on who's part, though. I don't think Rusty was talking about the threads proper, but about the thread titles screen which has a whole bunch of stickies (though less now that Bob's Oddities are sliding around :D ), but not having been around that long, maybe that's what Shecky, Katty, et al were talking about too. I'm just confused. ??? :)
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Either way, it doesn't matter. Our benevolent tyrants found it was most efficient to do it this way, and that's the end of it. Obviously, while it's Such An Issue for some people that they can't megapersonalize everything that they have to snip at the administrators for not doing things The Right Way, it's a non-issue because it ain't gonna change. Unless the complainers wish to donate servers, bandwidth and money? No? Didn't think so. ;)
In short, Wiz, people were complaining over something that should've been a non-issue in the first place (whether it was about posts or threads doesn't matter in the end), got told it was a non-issue because of practical reasons, rejected others' practical reasons in favor of their own potentially microscopically-increased convenience and got the subject terminated.
Now it's time to put this thread out of its suffering. ;)
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*Loads a shotgun and shoots the thread*