Official Request Thread

[ano]

One more request:
one of the things that were really nice in the old forum was the "view all posts" link. It was very useful for the cases when you wanted to store some interesting discussion topic on your machine. I always did so when I found a strategy thread that I thought is really good and important. It's always easier to save a year-old thread locally than to search for it and it allows storing really useful things in one place.
That's why I think, it would be very, very nice if we had that option back.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by ano

One more request:
one of the things that were really nice in the old forum was the "view all posts" link. It was very useful for the cases when you wanted to store some interesting discussion topic on your machine. I always did so when I found a strategy thread that I thought is really good and important. It's always easier to save a year-old thread locally than to search for it and it allows storing really useful things in one place.
That's why I think, it would be very, very nice if we had that option back.

At the top of this page go to "Thread Tool" and select "View Printable Version" form the pull down list. At the top right there's an option to view all posts on one page. You can then either do a save page as a txt file or use your print dialogue to print to pdf file.

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Annette

At the top of this page go to "Thread Tool" and select "View Printable Version" form the pull down list. At the top right there's an option to view all posts on one page. You can then either do a save page as a txt file or use your print dialogue to print to pdf file.

That would be very cool! And it's nice to have the printable version. But at the top right I see this instead, not "view all":

"Show 50 post(s) from this thread on one page"

The link looks like:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...?t=29054&pp=50

I tried doing this, but it didn't help, it still only gives 50 posts:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...=29054&pp=9999

[Annette]

Originally Posted by vfb

That would be very cool! And it's nice to have the printable version. But at the top right I see this instead, not "view all":

"Show 50 post(s) from this thread on one page"

The link looks like:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...?t=29054&pp=50

I tried doing this, but it didn't help, it still only gives 50 posts:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...=29054&pp=9999

I see, yes. So as it is now, a lengthy thread would need to be saved in a series of pages. I'll look into the possibility of improving this down the road.

[moderation]

Originally Posted by Annette

I see, yes. So as it is now, a lengthy thread would need to be saved in a series of pages. I'll look into the possibility of improving this down the road.

I hope the option to view all post in a single page is fixed soon. I just tried viewing this forum as printable and got http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...?t=40202&pp=10 . Changing it to &pp=50 doesn't help. No matter what do, the forum only lets you see 10 posts at a time. Is the number of posts you can view based on the thread length? In any case, it's rather weird.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by moderation

I hope the option to view all post in a single page is fixed soon. I just tried viewing this forum as printable and got http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...?t=40202&pp=10 . Changing it to &pp=50 doesn't help. No matter what do, the forum only lets you see 10 posts at a time. Is the number of posts you can view based on the thread length? In any case, it's rather weird.

We're not aware that it's broken... The default setting for vBulletin is to show 40 posts per page, and Mindi has raised that to 50. It's likely to stay that way. If we remove the cap, it's possible that loading an extremely lengthy thread into one page would bring the server to it's knees if it happened often enough.

The question is, why are you only able to see 10 posts per page? It shouldn't matter when you're using the view printable version, but have you adjusted the settings in your user cp under edit options?