Forum Pagination

I know this was mentioned in the middle of a post before and its probably on the long todo list but the forum really needs pagination on posts.

Some of them on here are becoming scroll of death.
updated by @garymoncrieff: 02/20/15 05:19:43AM

Its actually not on the todo list. on the JR4 forums we had epicly long posts with pagination.

changing to another page doesn't help with reading it at all. Best would be if posts didn't veer off topic, but sometimes they do which creates long threads.

You can always get to the bottom by clicking on the icon on the right of the thread for the last poster rather than the thread title.

That will add #last to the url and take you to the bottom.

This is actually on my Evernote TODO list, but we don't have a ticket open on it. I know some sites are really going to want it, so we'll likely add it in. I'm not a fan of pagination in forums (and I don't think the rest of the team is either). But that also comes down to the "type" of forum you're running. Here on Jamroom.net our goal with the forum is support, so we really WANT to keep a topic to a short number of posts and discourage going off topic on a thread. Some forums are all about off topic.

I think it would be an easy add - the only thing that might be confusing is having the "followup post" form at the bottom of each page instead of at the very end. We can do either, but someone may not want to have to go to the last page in a topic to post a response, but that is the most logical.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net
updated by @brian: 01/10/15 06:39:41AM

Yes please! My network has threads like "Introduce yourself!" "What Tunes I'm working on this Week", "The Positive Thread"..that members love adding to and following over time. Every couple of years I clear them and start over but they get hundreds of posts and my members love them.
And yes, pagination please, and please place a reply text window at the bottom of EACH page so they don't have to go to page 1 or page 53 to post a new post on the thread.
Thank you!


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

Having pagination will allow someone who wants to run ads on the forum pages - below the first post on every forum page - to do that. It can be quite profitable if the thread has multiple pages.

I recently just did a big round of updates on the Profile Forum for version 1.5.0 - pagination will be in the next (non bug fix) release.

Thanks!


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

Much appreciated!


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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015