users can specify how many messages to display

[[Unknown]]

No I just checked and I was wrong... but it's fixed now.

-[Unknown]

[Brian Lacy]

I knew someone once who set the message count to somehting like 10000.  The forum crashed immediately.

-[Unknown]

How is this different from having an "All" link? If the topic has 10000 posts, that's just as bad.

Anyway, I do like the idea of letting people customize the number of posts to display per page in their profile, and letting the admin customize the absolute maximum number allowed. The default would of course be the same as it is now. (If people haven't noticed, I'm a big fan of having tons of customization options for everyone!)

Edit: Please note, I still feel that anything that's not already planned should be considered for a SimpleMod or future release.

Edit Two: I just did an "All" request on what I suspect is the biggest topic on this forum -- the Welcome to Simple Machines topic under News and Updates. The result: 26853 Posts in 0.927 seconds. Not too shabby! Still, there was a noticeable wait for the whole thing to adtually render in I.E.

[Ben_S]

I knew someone once who set the message count to somehting like 10000.  The forum crashed immediately.

-[Unknown]

How is this different from having an "All" link? If the topic has 10000 posts, that's just as bad.

Because the all link is implemented such that it is only available if there is less than x posts in a thread

[Owdy]

And most threads dont have more than 40 posts on average

Depends on the board, some people have threads with thousands of posts.

Yeah, just look WAG thread

[Symetrix]

Because the all link is implemented such that it is only available if there is less than x posts in a thread

But surely the max posts to display user setting should be similiar, it will only come into effect if it is needed, and only go up to the amount typed in? Otherwise, if it works when it shouldnt, and goes higher than it needs, surely that would slow down page creation?

[Omar Bazavilvazo]

maybe a combo?
5,10,20,30,40,50...

something like that

[klumy]

I second the combo suggestion.

[dschwab9]

maybe a combo?
5,10,20,30,40,50...

something like that

I'm confused.  What are you talking about?

[[Unknown]]

He means, maybe a select box with those options.

-[Unknown]

[dschwab9]

He means, maybe a select box with those options.

-[Unknown]

In the profile for the user setting?  That would make sense, and would eliminate the million posts on one page problem I guess.