Posts per page

[Calinon]

Up to today, my displayed posts per page were set at 40. Now they seem defaulted at 25. Is there any way to change these back? My options seem limited to forum default and show posts per page (an option which appears to do nothing).

 

[Piratecat]

We reduced it to save bandwidth. I'm not sure if it's locked there, or if you can adjust it for yourself; if you can, it will be somewhere under your user cp.

 

[Calinon]

We reduced it to save bandwidth. I'm not sure if it's locked there, or if you can adjust it for yourself; if you can, it will be somewhere under your user cp.

I'll never argue with bandwidth concerns. I don't think there's a customizeable place in there, I looked pretty heavily, but can understand why there isn't if this change helps cut down on bandwidth useage.

Thanks

 

[Bozidar]

I suggested a way, last week i think, to reduce the bandwith on those main forum pages by about 17%, but folx shot it down because they thought it was a cool feature.

I for one think it's a better feature to be able to see more topics, especially on the heavy forums where now the updated topics over the course of 3 hours can run to a page and a half.

Just my $.02

 

[reapersaurus]

As far as I can tell, it is no longer customizable -I went to my CP, and there's no option there.

As to how it's saving bandwidth:
Up until recently, I had my view set at 20 posts per page, then I changed it to 40 per page.

I found that I had far fewer clicks, resulting in less calls to the database (which, granted, is CPU cycles and Hard drive access, not bandwidth, but....)

Is there any evidence that reducing the posts per page results in less bandwidth? Is bandwidth the only consideration? From the slowdowns, it seems like there's some hard drive or database or CPU issues, as well?

 

[Hand of Evil]

I changed my setting to only show post from the last week, default setting was for the last month. This has really helped my response time.

 

[Bozidar]

I changed my setting to only show post from the last week, default setting was for the last month. This has really helped my response time.

now THAT sounds like a great idea for a standard setting..

 

[reapersaurus]

that is a good idea - and it is a certainty to reduce bandwidth...

 

[Piratecat]

A fine idea. We'll implement that!

 

[BrooklynKnight]

A fine idea. We'll implement that!

Worst Idea EVER.

Please set it back to the old way.