Pagination of comments

January 23, 2004 8:25 AM

Would it make sense to spread the comments on user pages over multiple pages in batches of 100 or 200 comments per page? Right now loading a page listing the user's comments in MeFi or MeTa takes a while to load if there are tonnes of comments to list.
posted by riffola to Feature Requests at 8:25 AM (10 comments total)

I think that's a great idea.
posted by troutfishing at 10:13 AM on January 23, 2004

I'd love that. Threads with more than 100 comments (or less) slow the page load significantly.
posted by terrapin at 11:08 AM on January 23, 2004

It's a good idea, yeah.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:27 PM on January 23, 2004

I like the idea, too, although I don't know if there's more than one metric tonne of comment history ;)
posted by The God Complex at 12:52 PM on January 23, 2004

Word. My Safari frequently crashes when trying to load someone's post history if there are more than a thousand comments. It's also a bandwidth hog, no? I vote for listing 100 threads per page... that should cover most users' last 30 days. Maybe 50 would do it.
posted by squirrel at 1:41 PM on January 23, 2004

I don't know if there's more than one metric tonne of comment history

Well, there's at least a few hogsheads.
posted by languagehat at 5:18 PM on January 23, 2004

tagline!
MetaFilter: At least a few hogsheads.
posted by wendell at 12:57 PM on January 24, 2004

No, wendell, you're wrong.
posted by squirrel at 8:07 PM on January 25, 2004

tagline!
MetaFilter: Wendell, you're wrong.
posted by wendell at 8:23 PM on January 25, 2004

MetaTalk: Tagline!
posted by fvw at 9:58 PM on January 27, 2004