(I am once again asking for your support) for pagination to be altered from 20 posts per page to something far better, such as 50 posts per page. I just
sperged out about this in Cobes' thread and since I've had a couple of three four glasses of wine, doubling down here too seemed like a solid move. My arguments are as follows:
1. Phoneniggers deserve the rope
2. See #1
Seriously though, the best and seemingly
only argument against changing from the current 20-posts-per-page to a more information dense configuration, like 50-posts-per-page, is the risk of invalidating people's posts remarking how many pages a subject has managed to accrue. This feels extremely shallow and a very gay reason to stick with a setting that has such obvious drawbacks, such as:
- If you want to bring yourself up to date on a subject by reading their entire thread, something which seems to be widely encouraged for good reason, it's a pain in the ass to have to click through so many pages. By keeping pagination so low you are ipso facto encouraging threadshitters to not catch up before making worthless posts.
- Each page of a thread is drastically low density as far as information and progression goes. You can read 20 posts in a relatively good quality thread and, odds are, it won't take you on much of a journey. Reminds me of a kid trying to scam his school's assignment requirements by double spacing the text, making the font really large, and adding huge margins with padding.
- Processing is cheap now but I assume having to gob out 2.5x the number of page loads adds an overhead which is not necessary. If someone's reading a thread, giving them more of that thread to consume per bite seems sensible.
Side notes:
The highlight system is great and works... reasonably well. If you really just want to skim a thread it's often a good way to get across the main events fast. In lieu of the easy fix (pagination), could you enhance the highlight system so that highlights for a thread can be displayed on a single page?
I am assuming changing pagination in Xenforo is as straightforward as changing a configuration variable and invalidating your page cache. If that's not true and it's far gayer than that, the equation changes.