[nikasp]

Hi!

I've tried changing the default setting to "posts per page" and still only see eight posts per page. Any idea how to change that? I am used to seeing maybe eighty posts per page on other pages. Opening new pages is a pain in the a**.

/N

[nikasp]

Is it not possible to show say 80 posts in one page if I would like that instead of opening page after page after page? Anyone?

[KnowItAll]

Nikasp, not the number of posts per page is not configurable.

When the number was configured, the average number of replies per thread was 8.

[KnowItAll]

mysql> select avg(replycount),count(*) from thread;
+-----------------+----------+
| avg(replycount) | count(*) |
+-----------------+----------+
|          7.5889 |    15416 |
+-----------------+----------+
1 row in set (0.03 sec)

Still is .. average 8 replies per thread.

[nikasp]

I hear you but would like it to be configurable. Is it a performance thing or is it more that people should be able to say "check out page 9"?

[PDLM]

The average reply count hides a very wide spread though... my gut feeling is that either threads have very few replies or they have lots. I agree that I would prefer 20+ per page (and unless my memory is playing tricks on me the option did work in the past on this site - perhaps several years ago).

[Lammarite]

It would be interesting to see if you upped it to 10 posts whether the post count would go up. It may be the 'Page 2 syndrome' in the same way that if you are on the 2nd page of a Google search you may as well be on the 90th page because no-one goes to a 2nd page search.

[KnowItAll]

Nika, it is a performance thing for sure.

Every post that is displayed adds to the number of SQL queries and the memory that is taken up on the server processes ( php / caches ).

To keep both SQL query and memory usage predicable on a per page basis we've kept the number of posts frozen at 8 per page.

We serve a total of 200-300K dynamically generated pages per day across our main server, so it is fairly important to keep things as stable as possible.

PDLM : there are variances, for now I'd rather stick to the average to predict resource use.

The variable amount of posts per page was used a couple of times to overload the server and when it was enabled, few (less than 10) people used it.

[KnowItAll]

>> It would be interesting to see if you upped it to 10 posts
>> whether the post count would go up.

The flip side is that it might also change the signal to noise ratio.

Lets stick with 8 ... its been a lucky number for a lot of us.

[Lammarite]

Humbug!!












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