WHY have you got rid of All On One Page?

Well, you can click on them to make them bigger if you're on a PC, evilg.

But they are hard to see on a portable device.

Huitre

Indeed, Zachary. Especially as the pics are the size of a postage stamp anyway.

Good point, Zachary. I'd forgotten they'd done that as I never post any photos.

MNHQ You've recently added the ability to embed photos in the body of a thread. Does this impact on the time and bandwidth needed to load a thread?

If a thread has lots of photos, would this result in a slower load time than a thread with a similar number of posts but no photos?

If so, why have you introduced one new feature (that no one really wanted) which slows down thread load time, and then introduced another feature (that everyone hates) to resolve the slow loading problem? Why not remove the photo feature, or make it optional so users can opt out of seeing photos if they have a slow internet connection.

If you must have a maximum number of posts per page limit, then make the same limit for maximum number of posts per thread.

I don't seem to have moving ads on mine (safari/ipad) though I don't think I've done anything? Will investigate...

It's all right, so am I!

I love you, myBOYSareBONKERS! I'm a married woman!!

Good luck

If you find a way to block ads in safari/iPad, Poppy, do tell! I hate ads, and moving ads in particular.

Oh. I'll have a look into what I can do with safari.
I was kicking myself for a minute then that I could've just unticked a box in customise ages ago.

No, I do that with AdBlock for Chrome or Firefox.

You can hide them?
Do I look in customise for that?

It does seem to me, based on no scientific or server time evidence at all, that most of the site slowness started when they began having moving GIF adverts.

I have actually gone back to hiding adverts after a car one nearly blinded me with it's headlights flashing at me.

But I know they are still there, slowing everything down.

I'm thinking that if the adverts are starting to impact on our enjoyment of the site, by giving us an ultimatum to reduce thread length or have pages then it's time to rethink the ads.
I'm on muted, so I'd really rather not have them anyway (particularly moving, blinking ones).

Just going to go against the grain and say I think that limiting viewable posts to 500 is fine. A small % of threads go over that, and there's nothing to stop people having page 1 open in 1 window and page 2 in another. I use the mobile site, not the app and find pages no bother.

Alternatively, how about a special quiche section with 2000 posts per thread, all viewable on 1 page and then limit everywhere else to 500 posts. If it's over 500 posts it's often a bunfight anyway.

It's working, it's working! YAY!

One thing to consider, Tech and MNHQ, if you do split threads into pages of 500 posts, you may find people actually using more bandwidth as they switch back and forth between the pages.

I concur with several previous posters - limiting threads to 500 (or 750, or something that is not so hard on the servers) posts would be infinitely preferable to being forced into having pages.

Also, thanks for the heads up, Maryz!

I love you, myBOYSareBONKERS!

Thank God! It's not just me. See, Rowan/Tech?!

I do not like pages AT ALL. Like Maryz and others I like to have the whole thread open so that I can skip up and down it. This cannot be done on two, three or more pages.

If we cannot have 1000 posts on one page back, then I would prefer thread limit to be 500 posts, just as long as they can be ALL ON ONE PAGE.

Ithangyew

Imagine trying to have a proper bunfight on a thread limited to 100 posts?

1000! Not 100.

I did edit under but Rowen took advantage !

But really threads were limited to a 1000 becuase of the "show all threads" option. More than a 1000 and it wnet ...wonky or something. I am sure that is the readon given.

So if the top whack is 500 per page, there is no need for the 1000 limit anymore.

In order to prevent raging on beyond all reasonablness becuase there is abosutly nothing left to say, and to make sure fresh blood can come into quiche threads without feeling the need to slog through squillions of previous posts the new limit could be a 2000 with a view to review it up or down if unexpected consequences happen.

Haha, non TECHY. I'm definitely tetchy.

The option of going to page 2 from active convos mightn't help me much - once the thread is between 400-600 I won't remember which page I want. It's probably okay if you're here checking updates everyday.

Is it not the moving adverts that cause the slow loading?