In the old days, we were allowed to choose from the pulldown menu how many posts we could see in a given page. I think the range was between 10 and 100. Right now, I can only view 10 posts at a time. I would like to increase this to 100 (or more) but I can't find the option to do this in the settings.
That's what I'm saying. Hence, I'm requesting that you implement it in the setup. Or are you saying that is not possible?
It's not going to happen because it screws up links to thread pages. For example, let's say a thread has 300 posts and you have your preference set to 100 posts per page, but the default setting is 10 posts per page. Page 3 of the thread for you would contain posts 201-300, but if you ever copy and pasted the URL to that page 3 in an email or on another website and somebody clicked on it, it would show only show posts 21 - 30 for them because the default setting is 10 posts per page for an unregistered user or a member with the default setting, So page 3 for them would be drastically different than your page 3. That means they wouldn't be seeing the page of posts you were trying to reference at all.
I dig it. But I notice there are numbers associated to every post, which is found just beneath each post. The problem you listed could easily be solved should you reference it to the post number rather than to the page, no? Anyway, it's not a big deal. I thought this was something that you could easily fix. If it's too much trouble, don't worry about it. Thanks!
We can't change how the internet Is indexed by search engines, and currently that's by page URLs, not post URLs. The software you referenced in your first post was created before the era of Google, which is why it had that posts-per-page setting. But now that Google is such a huge part of sending traffic to any website, pages must be consistent in the content they contain for both the search engines and for users.