I'm on a slow dial up and I personally prefer 50 at a time (which is what I'm set to now) rather than 10. It does take less time in my head because it doesn't have to reload everything else. Plus if I hate, I can change it.
Overwhelming? How much more than whelming would that be exactly?
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Kat - Dec 07, 2002 3:14:17 pm PST #1914 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
John H - Dec 07, 2002 3:15:13 pm PST #1915 of 10000
My figures give a value of roughly 0.8K per post, and an overhead of roughly 10K per page, so a fifty-post page would be the other side of 50K, which isn't great, but still pretty cool.
Kat - Dec 07, 2002 3:17:25 pm PST #1916 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Even at 50K it loads much faster in the long term v the short term.
And, this increases my scrollability which is important to facilitate my skimmability.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 3:18:03 pm PST #1917 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That's about right. Natter 1 came in at 9058 KB for 10024 posts.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 3:20:46 pm PST #1918 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
And, this increases my scrollability which is important to facilitate my skimmability.
Yup, very important when mearaing, because it means less bandwidth used when going back, given that php always recreates the page, even when using the back button.
John H - Dec 07, 2002 3:24:09 pm PST #1919 of 10000
given that php always recreates the page, even when using the back button
Minor nitpick, -- not for everyone. We had a discussion about this a while ago when the point was about the post-box-content disappearing.
It's an issue to do with a combination of browser, ISP and cache(s), and I don't think we ever quite got to the bottom of it.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 3:30:52 pm PST #1920 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I googled it a bit, and it seems that php is supposed to work that way, and it's only in Opera that it doesn't. This is considered a 'feature' of Opera, by which I mean that it's a bug, but most people would prefer it to work that way.
edit: On the caches, php wants a server side cache.
§ ita § - Dec 07, 2002 3:38:04 pm PST #1921 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DX, can you give me some links on that behaviour?
A feature I've tucked away in my brain to implement sometime is to be able to skip to a particular time/date in a thread.
John H - Dec 07, 2002 3:55:59 pm PST #1922 of 10000
it seems that php is supposed to work that way, and it's only in Opera that it doesn't.
Standing right here!
MacOS and IE.
Nearly all Australian ISP cache the hell out of content though, because it's so likely to be US content it makes sense.
Also the browser has settings for how often it checks documents, right? Once a session/Every time/Never, in my browser.
John H - Dec 07, 2002 3:57:44 pm PST #1923 of 10000
to be able to skip to a particular time/date in a thread.
Good one -- posts in the last n hours would be cool.
but the diet too because I want to be immortalised