Lack of interest Show all posts button (like smf)?

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Like SMF, what do you think of adding a button which shows you all posts in a single thread?

 

[Tom]

Could easily cause performance issues in larger threads, which is I'd assume why the pagination system is in place in the first place.

 

[S Thomas]

There shouldn't be any performance issues with seamless page loading.

 

[back]

Could easily cause performance issues in larger threads, which is I'd assume why the pagination system is in place in the first place.

We don't live in 2008 anymore.

 

[imno007]

What button are you guys referring to? Can someone post an image? Just curious.

 

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What button are you guys referring to? Can someone post an image? Just curious.

Like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622992.0

Simply click 'All'

 

[imno007]

Like this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622992.0

Simply click 'All'

Thanks. This is apparently a feature that SMF itself has done away with, since I don't see it in 2.0 versions. Unless it's something you have to enable in the admin. If it's a feature they've done away with, then maybe they did get rid of it for performance reasons. Having said that, though, I will say it works pretty quickly on the site you linked to. But then I don't know what kind of server they're hosted on, etc.

 

[Tom]

We don't live in 2008 anymore.

Using, for example, AJAX/JS to implement seamless loading as suggested would work, however I was referring to simply loading all posts at once in a single request, which would cause performance issues on large threads (talking 1000s of posts).

 

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Most people hate seamless loading like Twitter or Facebook. I prefer classic 1 long page. If only text it should be no problem.