Why can't I see more than one page of threads?

There's no "Next Page" button. I can't see anything unless it's on Page 1. Which really sucks, because there's something I'm looking for right now.

Moved to HPC:Factor discussion

Use the filters on the bottom left of the forum view to extend the database pull

There are no restrictions on the database pull. It's pulling all dates. I still only see a single page, with no "Next" button.

you need to explicitly press "Go"

That's by "Jump to forum," cmonex.

Isn't there more than one page number next to "Jump to page"?

CE Geek, no, you misunderstand. he wants to jump between threads, and so my answer is completely relevant.

Ah - slight semantic difference. I thought he meant the first page of each thread.

I don't want to "jump" anywhere. I want to see Page 2 of the LIST of threads -- you know, the list that appears when you open a forum.





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Yeah, it doesn't show the subsequent pages in the default "All years" and "All months" setting. As C:Amie and cmonex are saying, select a year and a month and then click on "Go."

Okay, so what's wrong with it, and what does it take to fix it? I'm not a vBulletin whiz, but might be able to help.

why do not you read what i say? just press one of the Go buttons there..

it is nothing wrong with it, designed in this way by C:Amie to reduce load on the servers. it was different a long time ago and i dont like this new arrangement but oh well.

LOL at the screenshot name

I always read what you say, cmonex. You didn't explain the reason for the functionality until just now. Still, I'm not sure I see how it reduces the load on the server to remove a set of page number hyperlinks. The query that pulls the next set of matching database items doesn't need to run until I click "Next Page".

Edited by deusexaethera 2007-10-17 10:43 AM

Easy, the database doesn't magically know how many pages there it has to iterate the value. The original forum core that we populated had to query the integer value for the page count, generate the page information and preform the divisible mathematics every single time someone loaded forum-view.asp. It was killing the SQL Server.

Yes it can be fixed with cache algorythms and some hash tables to map data, indices and output strings together, but the only necesity I have for doing that is that google et al cannot index us beyond the first 30 results.

You don't have to query and parse the ENTIRE contents of the forum to find out whether there's more than a single page.

When you query the database for thread names, set a cap of 31 results. If 31 results are returned, display 30 and add a "Next Page" hyperlink. If 30 or fewer results are returned, display all of the results and don't add the link.

If the first thread on the page has an index of 0 (or however the first thread in the forum is labeled), don't display a "Previous Page" hyperlink. If the first thread on the page has an index >0, do display the link.

Edited by deusexaethera 2007-10-19 11:12 AM