The Middle East Thread (Part 1)

[ISMF]

@Magnus

moderator Is the end of a thread automatic ?
Because I now read for hours, scrolling. I noticed extreme slowness as I went down, long pauses before I could scroll more. There seems to be too many posts in the thread and there isn’t even many tweets. I don’t scroll through a thousand posts often, so I must ask, is this usual behaviour for this engine ?
Because if so, then perhaps the threads should be ended, if possible, at 500 or 1000 posts instead of however many thousand it is possible to stick into this one. Just something I observed. I complain about lack of pages now and then, but this time I tried to scroll, tried to pretend the forum had pages. But it didn’t work. It really didn’t work. Long, long pauses when I scrolled, as the site was loading and loading. Is this common when scrolling through a ton of posts here ? Because if so, is it possible to set automatic end of thread (I know some threads have “finished” and restarted at a certain post count) before wherever it is now ? Could that fix these issues which makes scrolling nigh impossible ?

I suppose you are the guy who should be pinged with such questions @ISMF

Edit: Maybe my idea is very foolish and would just spam a lot of threads. I don’t know. Haven’t slept since I handed in my paper this morning, so I am maybe just 60% operational now when it comes to brain capacity. Maybe not the best time to throw out ideas…

As threads get longer they do get slower, lots of complex reasons. But taken your feedback on board.

Instead of going to 500 or 1000, let’s try 4000