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Meta: Heavily Commented Page Load Times

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 14 2016, @01:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-maple-syrup dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

So, the Islamic Terrorist Opens Fire on Florida Nightclub; 50 Killed, 53 Wounded story is up over 400 comments and loading slower than hell. We finally managed to find ourselves a limit to comments under the current code. There's a fix going to be coming in the upcoming site update but for now there are two workarounds; take your pick.

  1. Change your comment view mode to Nested or Flat.
  2. Change Comment Limit under Preferences to five to ten.

The latter solution gives you 5-10 root level comments and all their children not 5-10 comments total. It also allows you to keep using the javascript expand/collapse buttons if you were.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:53AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday June 15 2016, @12:53AM (#360293) Homepage Journal

    It'd have to be some extremely clever css. Collapsing comments below score N we can do easily through css, and already are doing so on dev, but the numeric comparison has to be done server-side unless we want to use javascript, which is a non-starter. House rule: everything has to run correctly without javascript turned on. Too many of the community block it.

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