Infinite scrolling on homepage

Vasan_Cannane · December 11, 2023, 7:01am

Is there anyway to limit the number of posts appear on the homepage.

Is there anyway to do pagination?

merefield · December 11, 2023, 9:52am

Front end pagination is not supported on the main Topic Lists.

By default I believe only 20 Topics are shown in the infinite scroll initially

I don’t believe this can be changed with a setting, but you could build a plugin:

github.com

discourse/discourse/blob/8e373bc167e5099a527e4fb9aef59eeb6140fd13/lib/topic_view.rb#L53


      
            :post_number,
          )
          
          delegate :category, to: :topic, allow_nil: true, private: true
          delegate :require_reply_approval?, to: :category, prefix: true, allow_nil: true, private: true
          
          def self.print_chunk_size
            1000
          end
          
          def self.chunk_size
            20
          end
          
          def self.default_post_custom_fields
            @default_post_custom_fields ||= [Post::NOTICE, "action_code_who", "action_code_path"]
          end
          
          def self.post_custom_fields_allowlisters
            @post_custom_fields_allowlisters ||= Set.new
          end

However, there’s a setting to control the number of Topics shown on the /categories page:

pfaffman · December 11, 2023, 10:26am

What problem are you solving? Infinite scrolling is the norm on virtually every major platform.

Vasan_Cannane · December 11, 2023, 2:37pm

It is what I have been asked to do

pfaffman · December 11, 2023, 3:07pm

I am pretty sure that the past decade no one who has been asked to make a paginated version has succeeded.

Here’s a recent response to a simillar request:

Here’s another such topic: Is pagination impossible or just hard? - #3 by merefield

Some popular sites that your company may have heard of that have adapted to infinite scrollling include Facebook, LinkedIn, and twitter.com. Most people who were using paginated forums have switched to Discourse.

If they really want pagination they should use different software.

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