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Small changepoint in the way messages are displayed on the web interface:
There's a thread going now that's nearly 400 messages long (yes, really!)
and this is fine, but it makes for some really unpleasantly plump "connect
the dots" thread displays when reading new messages -- you get a 127K page
where only 2K of that is new content and the other 125K of it is the thread
tree. Not only is this a complete waste of bandwidth on each page display,
but unless you have a very fast CPU, it can take several seconds for your
browser to format and display the page after receiving it. In any case, no
fun! :-(
To fix this, I'm shoving the "connect the dots" visual-tree-graph off of the
article-display page when the thread grows super-large. Right now, it's got
the "acceptable thread size" limit set at 200 messages. That's probably
still too high and should really be lowered to something more like 100 or
50, but but I didn't want to shock everyone by reducing it too low without
any warning.
Most threads never go above about 10 or 20 messages, so this only affects
the really big hairy/scary ones that seem to take on lives of their own.
--Todd
p.s. If you're curious about what's going on in this crazy huge old thread,
Jeremy Sproat posted a summary earlier this week:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=2262
(and since then, it's grown by 75 messages.)
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