Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
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Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
In viewtopic.php?t=11178 a user suggests the common option of customizing your forum viewing experience by showing more or fewer posts per page. Since people seem to feel strongly about it, why not a poll?
Advantages: Some users will enjoy seeing more or fewer posts per page.
Disadvantages: Users who change their setting from the default will have difficulty finding a post that's identified by its page number (like "check page 3 of this thread").
It won't have any significant effect on bandwidth, since this forum is pretty undemanding, lo-fi. It will slow loading for those who choose more posts per page, but that only affects them. It will speed loading for those who choose fewer (but they'll have to load more often).
Advantages: Some users will enjoy seeing more or fewer posts per page.
Disadvantages: Users who change their setting from the default will have difficulty finding a post that's identified by its page number (like "check page 3 of this thread").
It won't have any significant effect on bandwidth, since this forum is pretty undemanding, lo-fi. It will slow loading for those who choose more posts per page, but that only affects them. It will speed loading for those who choose fewer (but they'll have to load more often).
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
Have you guys thought about this? NO MORE PAGE WINS! numbskulls
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
94Corolla5Speed wrote:Have you guys thought about this? NO MORE PAGE WINS! numbskulls
Umm...
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
What? Everybody bitches about pagewins and now they want to remove that?
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
PAGE WINS!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
What is a page win, and how would allowing some users to change their page length affect it?
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watkins wrote:Humans have rear-biased AWD. Cows have 4WD
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
PAGE WINS!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
You know what they call those who rush in?paul34 wrote:oh shit -_-94Corolla5Speed wrote:Have you guys thought about this? NO MORE PAGE WINS! numbskulls
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
i'm on both sides. i can't decide. so here's a vote for each (but i can't vote that way...so it doesn't work)
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
When you pwn a page by making the first post on it, mane.theholycow wrote:What is a page win, and how would allowing some users to change their page length affect it?
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
Like...
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
This. Page win, and by postwhoring, to boot.
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Re: Should users have the option of viewing more posts per page,
I voted no only because of the referencing problem it would create. I think I just don't like change, though. I hated it when SS was changed to the way it currently looks (although now I can't even remember what it looked like before).