Re^2: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery

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Thanks, I did find that eventually and changed the value from 10 to 40, perhaps this will do the trick.

I still think it is worth considering on-demand paragraph collapse and expansion, ala slashdot, although I lack insight into how much effort this would involve, or how well others would receive this as a suggestion.

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Re^3: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery by elef (Friar) on Jan 05, 2011 at 17:03 UTC
It would be a welcome improvement, but frankly, I have learned to live with the... well... peculiar way the perlmonks site works and don't mind it much anymore. Accepting literal line breaks in posts instead of br and p tags would be much higher on my ui priority list than better reply hide/show, as would dozens of other changes. To be honest, some improvements in uptime and loading speeds would be even more welcome. Perlmonks is by far the slowest-loading website I have ever used, which is quite remarkable given that it's a text-only site with absolutely minuscule amounts of data per page. It also seems to be down a lot, too, but that impression may just be caused by loading times over a minute... after waiting 30 seconds or so for a text page to load, I tend to lose my patience and close the tab.	[reply]
Re^4: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery by 0xbeef (Hermit) on Jan 05, 2011 at 17:20 UTC
Thanks, you are highlighting the exact same things that are bugging me, and surprisingly so given the amount of talented hackers that are around. I guess to an extent "old-timers" do not mind these things that much, or the amount of effort is perhaps just too much.	[reply]
Re^5: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery by Anonymous Monk on Jan 05, 2011 at 18:14 UTC
all of the above, and then, given the subject matter, its not a bad thing to have time to think before you speak :)	[reply]
Re^4: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery by deMize (Monk) on Jan 10, 2011 at 18:15 UTC
I also agree, especially about the line breaks and down/up speed. I want to attribute the loading times to the lot of bots that are slowing down the servers, but I don't know how accurate that is. Perhaps it's just the chatterbox or the fact that the server is using Pentium III's :) Demize	[reply]
Re^3: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery by tye (Sage) on Jan 05, 2011 at 20:28 UTC
I already use on-demand reply level expansion, by clicking on a reply that only has the heading shown or the heading of the last reply whose body is shown. - tye	[reply]
Re^3: Dealing with nested replies in the Monastery by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Jan 06, 2011 at 03:17 UTC
If you want your browser to grab all the subthreads and only show you a portion of them, there is some CSS you can use to do that. As for me, if I'm interested enough to read more than about eight layers deep, I have no problem loading a new page.	[reply]

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