Why does the forum setting not allow it

[Synchronice]

I was reading through a thread on the gambling board but the thread has 302 pages and does not have an option for 'view all pages' but other threads that have up 15 pages has the settings (' view All' ) besides the last pages that you can click to see all the posts in one page.

My question is, would it be difficult to make possible for big threads like that to also have the VIEW ALL settings? If not, then why is it not there?

As others have said, it will significantly increase the server load. Have you noticed how long it takes to load a thread with 4-5 pages? It takes a lot of time even with a good computer and internet connection and now image, there are so many threads with hundreds and thousands of pages, it will be crazy to load them all in one.
By the way, I think that there is a solution to this problem. Theymos can add option like load 1-10 pages on a single page, 20-30 pages on a single page, 30-40 and so on. Someone has to tell PowerGlove about that, he might be able to do it.

[LoyceV]

We only have a few genius minds here, but I remember seeing a thread before created by LoyceV that could display all pages, even beyond 15 posts. I just can’t find it now, but I believe that was around 2019 or 2020.

You're looking for "Show All" on long topics I think it still works, feel free to try it:
https://loyce.club/showall/5102296.html
It's currently scraping, the page will update when it's done. Read the limitations in that topic, this is barely used so not very fancy

My question is, would it be difficult to make possible for big threads like that to also have the VIEW ALL settings? If not, then why is it not there?

This limitation reduces server and browser load. Viewing 6000 posts in 300 pages at once is usually not the best way to read posts. I only use "view All" to use CTRL-F to find back a post.

[Wiwo]

During times when Bitcoin is booming and everyone is flooding this place with posts, it can barely handle the traffic as is.  I don't think we need to be doing things to make that worse.  I lost control of my inbox years ago and it takes an incredibly long time for it to load.  Sometimes minutes.  I've learned to click 'My Messages' and then mess around on the site for a while before clicking it again to have it load quickly.  I guess for people who don't post much on large threads or have a gazillion PMs, you might not know how bad the problem is.

For some like us, I was just imagining how possible such lag could be on PMS, you must be receiving tons of PMS to witness such, I haven't grown in popularity to receive such traffic loads of pm and I don't also comment on mega thread to notice that.

But as you have mentioned I will take note and apply your method to overcome the lagging in loading if and when my pm becomes that demanding to receive tons of messages like yours.

[AVE5]

The number of pages below 15 can still workable in the server but imagine the number of pages 50 and above and the request for those to take load, it took a lot of usage for the user to use, and including the factor of the number of people active using the server that time so it might cause takes load to the forum itself. Just like ordering a lot of food with just one crew to prepare that all. Just click on the next page. 

You can actually view all pages nomatter how lengthy it may be but why the View All command bar isn't there is because the forum server having a limited pages to be load at once isn't supported to load such high numbers of pages being mentioned by the Op at once.
This doesn't limit you as a user from viewing all the lengthy pages but rather you can only view them manually by clicking pages after pages. The unavailability of this feature is literally a systematic order to accommodate multiple users in the forum so the serve can always perform efficiently.

[DaNNy001]

I was reading through a thread on the gambling board but the thread has 302 pages and does not have an option for 'view all pages' but other threads that have up 15 pages has the settings (' view All' ) besides the last pages that you can click to see all the posts in one page.

My question is, would it be difficult to make possible for big threads like that to also have the VIEW ALL settings? If not, then why is it not there?

As others have said, it will significantly increase the server load. Have you noticed how long it takes to load a thread with 4-5 pages? It takes a lot of time even with a good computer and internet connection and now image, there are so many threads with hundreds and thousands of pages, it will be crazy to load them all in one.
By the way, I think that there is a solution to this problem. Theymos can add option like load 1-10 pages on a single page, 20-30 pages on a single page, 30-40 and so on. Someone has to tell PowerGlove about that, he might be able to do it.

I don't know why people are bothered about this because for me loading all those page at once isn't really worth it besides you can just skipped and go the next page to get whatever data that you want because I believe whatever decision that theymos took is actually based on past experiences that have affected the server of the forum.

[KingsDen]

I was reading through a thread on the gambling board but the thread has 302 pages and does not have an option for 'view all pages' but other threads that have up 15 pages has the settings (' view All' ) besides the last pages that you can click to see all the posts in one page.

My question is, would it be difficult to make possible for big threads like that to also have the VIEW ALL settings? If not, then why is it not there?

Without paying reference to overloading the server, I think that the view all option is effective in only threads less than 20 pages. If you view all posts in a thread that has 500 pages, how long do you think it will take you to scroll to the latest post?

[Doan9269]

I was reading through a thread on the gambling board but the thread has 302 pages and does not have an option for 'view all pages' but other threads that have up 15 pages has the settings (' view All' ) besides the last pages that you can click to see all the posts in one page.

My question is, would it be difficult to make possible for big threads like that to also have the VIEW ALL settings? If not, then why is it not there?

I think it's more better as it is now, you can imagine when you wanted to view all pages and you're being subjected to verifying that you're human, secondly, it is good for some threads depending on the content on each, you can see if such thread is not what should consist of information needed only on a single page, it may on the contrary be tiring to read as too many post content being displayed could be discouraging, except you choose to view all of them by yourself, which mostly can be that you have access to viewing a list or continuation of a post content interesting to read till the end, but as it is already, you have the privilege of viewing all pages, or checking them one after the other, but consider for pages that could be more than 20 should this be also applicable.

[Smartvirus]

I was reading through a thread on the gambling board but the thread has 302 pages and does not have an option for 'view all pages' but other threads that have up 15 pages has the settings (' view All' ) besides the last pages that you can click to see all the posts in one page.

My question is, would it be difficult to make possible for big threads like that to also have the VIEW ALL settings? If not, then why is it not there?

Without paying reference to overloading the server, I think that the view all option is effective in only threads less than 20 pages. If you view all posts in a thread that has 500 pages, how long do you think it will take you to scroll to the latest post?

That’s the obvious case here, you still get to scroll down the pages no matter what. Your screen size redefines as the pages and after going through a set of those, you still get to scroll down and read its continuation. Either way, it still gets as tedious as you would have hoped to avoid with the view all pages. It’s much better having one than having the other and they both deliver on the same result. Best would be to leave it as it is as, ain’t no way you would be reading all comments on a 100pages thread if the patch to this suggestion is taken into account.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

It's more well doing having it like this than when pages are above  a reasonable numbers, to be honest, can you also take your time in going through a mega thread having more than 300+ pages, isn't it going to be tiring to read, if the pages are no more than five or 10 it's still better, but anything over these is unacceptable to view all, it can even take longer time to load the entire pages at once, I also don't see it as a difficult task to do by swiping from one page to another.

[Agbe]

I have not seen that particular feature of "View All" in the forum. I only noticed of this <<>> sign to the next page of the thread. But Op you supposed know that you can't view all the 300+ page at once so adding that to the large/mega thread will probably slow down the server or your page. And we thank God that you can view all from a small pages thread though I have not seen such. And to answer your question, yes it is possible to make the view all feature in the mega threads.

[nakamura12]

It was quoted by Helena Yu about why it is now allowed to view all pages when the thread have so many pages which theymos said that it is too much load on server which I definitely agree. I think it is much better as it is rather than allowing to view all pages on a thread that have so many pages. Why don't you try using the search feature?. It is what I used if I want to find a thread or using google with bitcointall at the end of what I wanted to find or search.

[Cryptohygenic]

It was quoted by Helena Yu about why it is now allowed to view all pages when the thread have so many pages which theymos said that it is too much load on server which I definitely agree. I think it is much better as it is rather than allowing to view all pages on a thread that have so many pages. Why don't you try using the search feature?. It is what I used if I want to find a thread or using google with bitcointall at the end of what I wanted to find or search.

It has really begotten known that the bitcointalk forum server is alternating to attend to multiple users as much as with multiple features that carries lot of logs and in high capacities.
So to maintain good server services, every required features must not be in a friendly or convenient formats.
That is just a formative order to enhance the server from working efficiently.
So likely, there had been a lot of features which the forum users has been proposing but obviously that we can not get it all done in considering the servers outage.

[Reynaldo]

Loading hundreds of pages at once would create massive server strain and likely crash your browser. For large threads, try using the search box in the upper right corner when on a topic page  it searches only within that specific thread. Much more efficient than scrolling through thousands of posts.