Multiple Page Thread View?

[bma725]

Maybe it just annoys me, but how come some threads that have multiple pages allow you to view all pages and some require you to go page by page?

For example, the reponses to Rosiak's most recent blog cover three pages and to view the next page I have to click it individually.  But the "MU making the Jump to Jumpman" has two pages and I can view 1, 2 or All. 

Any way to make it so all the longer threads have the option to view all messages?

[mu_hilltopper]

You just blew my mind. 

With how varied it is, I'll guess that's a bug in the forum software.

[rocky_warrior]

Not a bug at all - it's actually an option, and I just bumped it up for you.

We had it configured so that once a topic has over 25 posts, it goes multi-page.  Also configured was that view all was limited to topics with less than 40 posts.

I believe the reasoning for all this is because the more posts that are displayed on a page, the more simultaneous database connections that need to be started, and hence higher server load.

However, just to be nice  , I bumped up the view all to allow up to 80 posts, which should cover topics with a little over 3 pages.  Sorry though, once you get tot that point, you'll have to page through,

Note, that if we start having load problems (usually only a couple times a year), we may need to bump it back down.

[Gwaki]

There is a firefox extension that i posted here awhile ago that would load the next page automatically when u reached the bottom of the page so you could have continuous reading.