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[martian]

I wanna ask why I can see "All" when listing through thread pages only in some threads.

Sometimes I can see it:


and sometimes I can't see it:

[Trace Coburn]

I wanna ask why I can see "All" when listing through thread pages only in some threads.

  An Admin can and will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it's a matter of thread-length: once a thread gets longer than ~125 posts, use of the "view entire thread" function starts causing problems, so it's automatically disabled once a thread gets too long.  Remember, viewing that many posts at once turns that one page into a pretty huge file/download, which puts a lot of strain on the servers, the connection(s) used by the viewing poster(s), and possibly the forum software itself, among other things.  ;)

[martian]

Thanks fo reply, I thought it's something like this. Just when you need to find something particular in a thread (with multiple pages) to reply correctly, and you must always hit "new page", "Ctrl+F", "Search", "new page", "Ctrl+F" ...

Before the crash I sometimes found interesting thread, hit "show all" and saved with all posts. Today I save it or print it as PDF through Print dialog.

[Paul]

Trace nailed it. The max is actually 120 posts.

The load we're looking to curb isn't the download, it's the work the database has to do to make a page that has 120 posts on it.

Paul