When threads get long they struggle to load, and especially when there are lots of images. The Vigilant Citizen forums have got it right. Frustrated!!

It’s just a matter of taste. To me, pagination is a pain in the neck. I like Discourse’s infinite scrolling and the slidey navigation thing. Your answers are maybe to use a faster server, or just use XenForo :slight_smile:

[image] Jonathan5: XenForo Understood, thank-you.

There are a lot of discussions about the pro/con of pagination vs infinite scrolling on the internet. You may dislike the infinite scrolling, but since Discourse’s navigation was built around it, it works very well thanks to the timeline to the right, the fact that the browser remembers which post you were at when you left the thread when you come back later, etc… Also, some people won’t like it until they give it a bit of time to give it a try. Also, I’ve migrated 3 forums from old forums with paginations to Discourse. The extremely rare complaints about the lack of pagination quickly vanished. People ended by liking it.

Thank-you. have been using it for more than a year and the delayed response is frustrating to say the last. Otherwise everything else is fine.

Can you say more about the delayed response? In which context exactly? On which forum?

There doesn’t seem to be an efficient importer from Discourse to Xenforo? Pity.

That might be a sign that not many people are doing it. Though it might just be complicated…

You’d have to ask on Xenforo’s forums for this, but a quick google search led to what you’re looking for (the first result…). About the delayed response, it might be a performance issue related to your server’s specs, as @Jonathan5 said previously.

[image] DGForum: When threads get long they struggle to load This is untrue, as we only load a “virtual” page at the time on topics, which is just 20 posts long, no matter the size of the topic. That means that loading this topic here with a handful of replies and loading Events Plugin 📅 with hundreds of posts takes the same time. Just tested on my browser and timings are similar. Do you see anything different?

Infinite scrolling is a total pain

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DGForum (DGForum) April 28, 2022, 2:44pm 11

Thank-you, understood. Have also just had some feedback on my hardware configuration, which could be the issue.

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Infinite scrolling is a total pain

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