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Viewing a Member's Posts
Topic Started: Oct 7 2016, 05:29 PM (647 Views)
Nonsense
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So I was trying to look through my old posts and the way it's done came to mind.

Right now, if you want to look at your old posts, you are given a Year and have to search by a month to month basis.

Is there a reason why it's done this way?
It's highly inconvenient.

Most forum softwares have this in a way that it just lists your old posts with dates and the link to the thread
with according pagination in hand.

Then you have the option to filter these results by date parameters as you wish.
This legacy way of doing these could use an improvement. You guys probably set this as a design decision during implementation process, but
viewing member's topics is done right. Which confuses me.

Just my 2 cents.

EDIT:

Also there's a bug with a theme switcher. If you currently look at this thread and change the theme, you will get an error message.
Then if you refresh the page, themes get switched. It works fine at the index page where the URL ends with /index but not at any other URL's.
Edited by Nonsense, Oct 7 2016, 05:40 PM.
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Joe
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I do agree that it would it would be nice to have additional options for filtering and searching through a user's posts.

My best guess is that it was implemented in the current manner in an effort to reduce strain on the server. Users can have a tremendous amount of posts. I have 40,000 posts on one board alone and there are others that blow by that number by a long shot. It is simply not practical to fetch that large of a data-set from a database when the majority of the results probably are not what the user is specifically looking for.

When it is broken into chunks such as months, it reduces the amount of lookup queries on the database and also makes each data-set more manageable. It's inconvenient, but theoretically it should minimize unnecessary server strain. In regards to topics for individual users, my guess for that would be the fact that most users create far fewer topics than posts.. thus chunking the data is not necessary. :P

As for the theme switcher exploding, that is a bug that has been around for a while and I'm sure is on the to-do list for when we get the server move/server outage bugs all squashed.
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This might help: http://support.zathyus.com/topic/5171109/1/

12 different years appear on my list, when I'm 50 it will be 36!
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Oct 7 2016, 06:15 PM
I do agree that it would it would be nice to have additional options for filtering and searching through a user's posts.

My best guess is that it was implemented in the current manner in an effort to reduce strain on the server. Users can have a tremendous amount of posts. I have 40,000 posts on one board alone and there are others that blow by that number by a long shot. It is simply not practical to fetch that large of a data-set from a database when the majority of the results probably are not what the user is specifically looking for.

When it is broken into chunks such as months, it reduces the amount of lookup queries on the database and also makes each data-set more manageable. It's inconvenient, but theoretically it should minimize unnecessary server strain. In regards to topics for individual users, my guess for that would be the fact that most users create far fewer topics than posts.. thus chunking the data is not necessary. :P

As for the theme switcher exploding, that is a bug that has been around for a while and I'm sure is on the to-do list for when we get the server move/server outage bugs all squashed.
With Pagination there should be minimal strain on the server anyway though. It doesn't matter if a user has millions of posts or 1. It should be similar in terms of performance. It should be broken into chunks by the latest date by default, not by the month.

I'm opening about 30 tabs to find my post. That's at least 30+ queries easily.
Designed by date and filters, I would make less than 5. And that's being generous.
Moreover, the queries are more efficient since there are accurate parameters,
and avoid the scenario of querying things like "Give me everything for this whole month" (which probably gets paginated anyway)
when I'm really looking for one single post.
Edited by Nonsense, Oct 11 2016, 01:44 PM.
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