The Middle East Thread (Part 1)

[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…

[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

[Hope.in.your.heart]

@Bekloppt

But the government is controlled by the settlers. It seems a little optimistic to think that the current regime will be replaced by something more reasonable.

Yeah, I’m assuming that at some point, a majority of people in Israel will have had enough of the monster currently serving as their PM, of missiles raining down on them, of that perpetual state of being at war, and will want something else. Like for instance, a credible political approach for a lasting peace in the region.

But as you say, there is no guarantee that we will ever see something like that again. In that case, Israel will slowly devolve towards a third-world country, as more and more educated people will migrate elsewhere. They already start having a shortage in doctors, lawyers, architects, engineers because all these people are fed up of the situation and are migrating elsewhere. That situation will only worsen with time going by. Thus: an existential crisis for the country.