Am I the only one...
 

...that sets their forum preferences to display 50 posts per page?

Reading though some of the longer posts on this, and other sites, I always see people who jump in late and say "I didn't have time to read all 3 pages, but..." To which, I think to myself "why is this dude still set to 10 posts/page?"

Can anyone explain to me why you like clicking "next page" so much more than scrolling through 50 posts at a time?

Thanks,

Because most of us are too lazy to check the settings.

And now that I know they're there... fixed. Good tip. :D

I had no idea you could even set that, wow... That would have saved a lot of frustration lol.

I set that long ago.

I had not realized that was adjustable until about a week ago, when someone mentioned it.

What difference does it make to you? :)

I'm conducting a mouse button longevity test. :)

Well I'm glad I could help some out. I've been on forums for a while and have been changing my settings to max posts/page for about as long and just wondered why some don't do the same because it seems much more convenient to me to set it that way. I understand the "different strokes for different folks" but since I hate 10/page I thought I'd ask why some prefer it so that I can understand the other side's view better.

I think it's easier to have the shorter pages for ongoing threads, since I can select the last viewed page, rather than having to search 50 posts for the place I left off.

That's what "View First Unread" is for, or even better- that little button in the control panel.

Only reason is if you have a buggy connection or dialup.

Many web browsers will not display the page as it comes in anymore.

What this means is a blank page for 5-10 minutes and then bam, in the old days you could watch as the page formatted on the screen, honestly I miss those days, you could " see" if malware wanted to run.

I mainly work around that by skipping the threads like Notable eco-cars (old & new) spotted in the wild: post your pics! when I'm on my phone.

What is this "little button in the control panel" you speak of?

Those little buttons. They'll take you straight to the first unread post-without having to load the page at the beginning and then jump to it.

http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...6&d=1424264563

Why did it never occur to me to click on them buggers? ;) Thanks!

Ok that explains it, I thought it was a setting in the userCP. I don't use my userCP that way because I also like to see new posts I haven't read yet. Good to know though. I've been taking full advantage of the button at the top of the page for "go to first unread"; I'd never noticed it before.

I subscribe to threads that interest me (even if I haven't posted in them) so they don't get lost in the shuffle. Once I'm caught up on subscribed threads I can browse recent posts.

"View first unread"? Now I've seen everything: this site can actually read my mind to know what posts I've actually read :-)

Yes, I know it really means "new posts since I last looked at the thread", but the point here is that I may not read every post on a page when I look at it, so when I come back later, posts that I didn't actually read are marked as read...

Me too! :D

Thanks - that actually made me LOL.

Same here. Having grown up in Silicon Valley, I have serious tech burnout. I don't really mess with stuff like that.