Recent Posts changes - 2 comments

I can recall the days when our Recent Posts page wouldn't show more than 50 or so posts from the two preceding days' posting. Today is actually fairly quiet with a mere 266, but the total has been as high as (a remarkable) 430 in the last fortnight. That's a lot.

Not only does that slow down the loading of the page, it also makes reading through the posts more frightening a prospect than it should be, as well as being rather costly in the use of our bandwidth.

So, from this day forth the page now displays posts in bunches of 100, which should still keep you going for a while. You can move from one group to the next using the links at the top and bottom of the page. You'll quickly see that you can also change the URL to display a different number of posts to 100 (please don't try typing "-999", as nothing funny will happen), but I don't plan to make that configurable unless there's demand for it.

One other thing: bear in mind that because it's quite likely that more posts will have been published in the time it takes you to work through one bunch of 100, a post that appears at the foot of one "page" may also appear on the next one you visit, simply because it's been pushed down by new posts further up. Of course this could be solved in a nice way, but hopefully it's acceptable (and makes some sense) for the time being.

So, do you approve of the changes, or was it really perfect just as it was?