I changed things to that:
- if you're replying to a post, you see that post
- if you're posting to the thread, you see the N more recent posts
-- David

On 13-Jul-2012 5:49 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> What would be nice would to display the last N posts in the thread when you
> are creating a post in the thread.  Where N = the page size.  This allows
> the user to control how much context is there.  Users of slow and instable
> connections would set the page size small and possibly open a second page
> to add the response.  Users of high speed stable connections could set to
> see enough context to reply to the thread in just the single window.
>
> jm7
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>    |Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: add pages to long threads  onwebsites    
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> Now we still have the effect of when answering to a specific post,
> that only that post shows underneath our answer-window, not the rest
> of the thread as well.
> When answering to no specific post, just to the thread, no posts of
> the thread show. To be answering to one or more posts in the thread,
> but not specifically to any of them, we'll now have to open the thread
> twice, once to answer, the other to look for who to answer what to.
>
> In the old style the thread would show in its completeness underneath
> the answer-window.
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> Another --kind of fun-- glitch is when you have someone on ignore, but
> are still eager to see what he/she posted. When their post is on any
> page other than the first one, when you click "Click here to show
> post", you're thrown back to the first page, first post in the thread.
> By the time you load the page with their post on it, the post is
> hidden again.
>
> Yet another glitch is when you are in a thread with multiple pages,
> while you're on any page but for page one:
> Adjust your "amount of posts per page" value to something large, like
> 250 posts.
> Save changes.
> Now reload the thread with F5 or CTRL+F5. It'll show as first post the
> first post of the page you were on, the whole 'first page' itself is
> gone.
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> -- Jord.
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