REQUEST: view 500 posts on one page ?

[jackal]

i'd love to go through the post pictures of amazing aircraft thread but it would be so much easire if i could wait a few mins and load the whole thread on one page.. its just all too time consuming to keep clicking through 50 pages or more

would this be possible ?

[Taita]

Think of the hamsters!

[RacingPete]

I am afraid it is limited by power of our systems to provide the information. Though it isn't going to add a massive load to the site we need to do some performance checks against it. I will have a look into the effects of us upping the number of posts per page.

[jackal]

thanks !

even upping by a few more posts

some of these 50+ page threads are a bit mental to read

[V8mate]

I changed the 'number of posts' setting to the maximum and it's much better to follow long threads (though even longer would be great!)

From other members' responses, it seems that not many users do though. Given that hardly anyone uses dial-up anymore, maybe the default setting for number of posts per page should be set at 40 or 80, letting people opt to have less if they are a user on a slow connection.

[RacingPete]

An interesting idea though I have to look at it with a commercial eye too.

If we change the number of default posts it will have a knock on to lots of other things and they could be good or bad for the site.

• It could result in number of page impressions dropping which then means a drop in ads served
• Also drop in page impressions could result in a drop in our rankings and affect future revenue and ad campaigns
• But it could mean that the number of seconds someone stays on our site is longer and they read more per click (thus search engine positioning goes up)
• Also the processing load on the servers will be affected by the increased amount of information they have to generate that might result in slow down of performance on the site
• But then with less pages being served it might increase performance

So it is quite a tricky decision to make

[The Excession]

RacingPete said:

An interesting idea though I have to look at it with a commercial eye too.

If we change the number of default posts it will have a knock on to lots of other things and they could be good or bad for the site.

• It could result in number of page impressions dropping which then means a drop in ads served
• Also drop in page impressions could result in a drop in our rankings and affect future revenue and ad campaigns
• But it could mean that the number of seconds someone stays on our site is longer and they read more per click (thus search engine positioning goes up)
• Also the processing load on the servers will be affected by the increased amount of information they have to generate that might result in slow down of performance on the site
• But then with less pages being served it might increase performance

So it is quite a tricky decision to make

Interesting thoughts Pete, aside from the fact that the pictures aren't hosted on PH, there's also another consideration, you actually produce fewer hits on the database, although the queries might have to run a little longer...

Tough one to call!

[xiphias]

I know some people might object, but couldn't you just double the ads for a 40post per page?

[RacingPete]

I have just checked the take-up of people to changing the number of replies per page and it is quite small so we could look at extending to more posts as an option, but I wouldn't want to change the default amount of posts at the moment.

We are moving to a new hardware design for the site in the first quarter of next year so we will look into this again then.

[V8mate]

RacingPete said:

I have just checked the take-up of people to changing the number of replies per page and it is quite small so we could look at extending to more posts as an option, but I wouldn't want to change the default amount of posts at the moment.

We are moving to a new hardware design for the site in the first quarter of next year so we will look into this again then.

The majority of people never consult the settings of forums. If you want 'x' to happen, it needs to be Admin led.

[RacingPete]

V8mate said:

The majority of people never consult the settings of forums. If you want 'x' to happen, it needs to be Admin led.

Agreed, which is why we can make the change in the settings as requsted above and why changing to 40 posts per page is a big decision.