Do you use 'All' option given next to topic links to read all comments in...

[libert19]

one page? [1]

I wonder if anyone uses it. Also, what's highest page count before this option goes away?


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I do not use or prefer to use the 'all' option to read on this forum. It is very simple for me to click on the next page as this forum is lite to load. I prefer how it is organized into pages instead.

I wonder if anyone uses it. Also, what's highest page count before this option goes away?

You will see the 'all' option on a thread with 1 to 25 pages. You will not see it again after the 25th page.

[Helena Yu]

The maximum is 25 because this thread have 25 pages and still able to show all the replies, when this thread have 26 pages the "show all" feature is disappeared.

Most of the time, I'm not use this feature because it's really long to wait all the replies need to reload, I'm prefer to click one by one page if the thread is very interesting to read.

[Yamane_Keto]

one page? [1]

I wonder if anyone uses it. Also, what's highest page count before this option goes away?

Clicking on this button causes a delay in browsing because I get a cloudflare error related to checking whether you are a robot. It seems that the reason is that you are requesting many responses. It is also not easier to search, as you will have to wait and then click C+F5 and the number of pages that are loaded is limited.
Open https://ninjastic.space/ and use the search feature using topic ID, which you will get by copying the link to the topic and you will find a unique number in it, which is topic ID. available options at https://ninjastic.space/ are good and faster

[Nwada001]

I only make use of this feature if I come across a thread that piques my interest, and the first to second comment under it is also in line with what the author is saying, and I see such threads like what I can learn a lot from if the page is below, for which I use the view all option. That's if I'm using my PC, and using the view all option makes it easier for me to read through those few pages without even realising how far I have gone by just reading through comments.
 
Aside from the above situation, I don't see it necessary to use the view all, as it might turn out to be complicated on my end, especially if there is something that I am looking for in that particular thread. I either check the first few pages and then go straight to the last page.

[un_rank]

I can imagine that one of the main reasons this feature was put in place to allow printing of all the pages in a thread easily without having to go page by page.

I have never used it since I registered on the forum, but maybe other members have used it to read through very interesting threads.

- Jay -

[libert19]

I can imagine that one of the main reasons this feature was put in place to allow printing of all the pages in a thread easily without having to go page by page.

Thank you, printing appears to me logically sound reason for this feature implementation.

[Poker Player]

No. What has happened to me, always from mobile, is that when I try to click on the number of the next page, I accidentally hit "all" and it starts to load, but between the fact that it takes a long time and that it was not what I wanted, in the end I never let it load. I go back and click, this time correctly, on the page I wanted to go to.

By the way, out of curiosity I tried for the first time in my life, this time from PC, letting it load and I don't like it. I prefer it separated by pages. Or I don't know if it's that I'm more used to the other option, but I see that the answers so far are along the same lines.

I can imagine that one of the main reasons this feature was put in place to allow printing of all the pages in a thread easily without having to go page by page.

Thank you, printing appears to me logically sound reason for this feature implementation.

It was probably implemented at the beginning, which was a time when there was still a lot of printing, people still printed emails, still bought the paper newspaper and either didn't have internet on their mobile or hardly used it at all, especially compared to today.

[TheUltraElite]

I dont use it and if I accidentally click it, I revert back because it starts a painful cloudflare check and messes up the flow. Instead I follow my last reply to that thread and continue reading from there.

If the thread went way big and more than ten pages after my reply, I usually read the last few pages and most of the times the thread has gone way offtopic already so I would no longer reply it in.

[dzungmobile]

You click on Show all and you will have to solve captcha, that is an annoying issue.

Try this to avoid captcha with this hidden page https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=topicID
or try a third party service from loyce.club "Show All" on long topics

[LoyceMobile]

Show All is mainly useful to search data, or posts from a specific user.

[EarnOnVictor]

I've only mistakingly clicked the "all option" rather than intentional since I do not have any use for it. I either and click the main topic or the last page depending on my mood and understanding of the topic under discussion.

By clicking the "all option," it's as good as you are wasting your data as it's not any good unless you are searching for something and need to expose all the pages at once.

[rdluffy]

I can imagine that one of the main reasons this feature was put in place to allow printing of all the pages in a thread easily without having to go page by page.

I have never used it since I registered on the forum, but maybe other members have used it to read through very interesting threads.

I use here when I want to search for something in the thread, the function of displaying All helps a lot
I click on All and then use CTRL + F in windows to search for the word
But when browsing and posting I hardly use it, I prefer to browse the pages separated by numbers anyway

[SFR10]

I wonder if anyone uses it.

I regularly use this feature to search for certain keywords and keyphrases on threads with no more than 25 pages, as opposed to reading all of the comments in this manner ^{[referring to your question in the subject field]}.

It is also not easier to search, as you will have to wait and then click C+F5 and the number of pages that are loaded is limited.
Open https://ninjastic.space/ and use the search feature using topic ID, which you will get by copying the link to the topic and you will find a unique number in it, which is topic ID. available options at https://ninjastic.space/ are good and faster

Even though the above website is indeed better, it's still not that fast with regard to threads that contain a lot of pages ^{[e.g. 100+]} "if" you don't own a computer mouse with a free/infinite scrolling mode ^{[you have to keep scrolling until the next batch of comments is loaded]}.

[SamReomo]

one page? [1]

I wonder if anyone uses it. Also, what's highest page count before this option goes away?

No, I don't personally use that feature but it's a helpful one especially for those people who read most posts in a thread. Once or twice I unintentionally clicked on that button and unfortunately I have to face Cloudflare verification in order to proceed further. For someone like me that feature isn't useful at all because I always read posts from most of the pages as that is easy for me.

[un_rank]

I use here when I want to search for something in the thread, the function of displaying All helps a lot
I click on All and then use CTRL + F in windows to search for the word

Alternatively, you can search in the page using the search box at the top which shows result from the entire thread. It works efficiently and from there one can locate the exact page the result was made.

- Jay -

[Bureau]

When you click the all link, it will show the Cloudflare verification. If there are more than 12 pages or if the thread is a mega thread. Why go through that pain of getting verified from a third party verification. I always click on the last page and then go forward as it helps me to understand what we are discussing on that thread. For some it would be a lot of pages, for us it is just another day.
 

[Doan9269]

I also don't make use of the function, but i think i can remember using it twice before which one was by accident as it wasn't intentional while the other was done by myself, what i observed was that it takes more time to load the "all" pages together in one single page than when you're checking on each page after the other, sometimes i go straight to the last page instead of having to to through each of the pages one after the other since i do a follow-up on such thread.

Another simpler way is to set a notification on a thread to keep getting notified of new replies or comments, once this is in place, you may just have to go directly to the intended page for your post through the notification link instead of looking around all through the entire thread pages.

[LTU_btc]

Same like most users here, I don't use this option at all. It has some useful things, for example it's easier to find specific words in that topic. But in general, it's not important thing for me, it make reading topic isn't convenient at all. I only click it accidentally sometimes, especially when I browse forum on mobile.

[Mpamaegbu]

The few times I tried using the "all" option, it took an unnecessary long time (by my estimation) to load coupled with the cloudflare verification I've to pass to prove I'm human to get through. That's unnecessary stress for me. I rather read page by page. However, I don't know if the cloudflare thing happens once a day if I used the "all" option or within certain hours after using it the first time in a day because there are a few time I've had to use it that it didn't pass me through that verification stress; just like now that I tried it several times within a few minutes.

Again, the "all" option would mean I'm more likely to miss a particular poster I may want to quote later as I may not remember on what page I read their post if I'm trying to recall. You know how you get to read through and then you suddenly remembered you want to react to what another user said in the midst of reading another user so as to yolk both comments in your post, right? That's it.