Leftwood said:Wow, I only have a 5 megabyte per second connection, and the Lily forum's 2016 thread's first page (500 posts) takes 12 seconds to load. I think your computer needs a house cleaning....
Is that 5MBps (megabytes per second) or 5Mbps (megabits per second)? There's a factor of 8 difference.
My PC is a few years old, but generally responsive (Intel Core2Quad, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD, Windows 10 and Firefox). I have my NGA account set to display only 100 posts per page, since I find that easier to manage (too many posts on one page means that if I have to leave the page and come back to it, I can lose track of where I was up to - especially on old threads that I am reading through, as when you view a page, all posts on that page are marked as read).
If we take the Lily 2016 thread as an example, that's 8 pages for me. Depending on what I'm searching for, there might be no results or there might be many results. Each page necessitates clicking on the up/down arrows in the search bar, then going back to the top or bottom of the page to navigate to the next (which involves more work if there is a post that mentions your search term but doesn't answer the question you had).
It'd be great if the search functionality could be improved, since I am sure the current setup leads to people posting questions that have been already asked. I'm used to the idea of searching for something before I ask a question on it, but digging through all the threads on a subject without links to specific posts takes time!
Edited to fix spelling and grammar.
