Friends page - How many posts can be displayed

[nouse4anick_00]

Title
Friends page - How many posts can be displayed

Short, concise description of the idea
Allow the user to set how far back they can go in their friends page.

Full description of the ideaImplement a setting so that the user can decide how many weeks worth of posts they can go back and check (ie 4 weeks instead of 2), also remove the post limit (ie

Comments

[boredinsomniac]

Previous suggestion from November 2007:
http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/786812.html

That one only mentions # of posts, not the 2-week limit.

[charliemc]

I like the idea in theory, but I wonder if it impacts bandwidth load in some way... (???)

There are times when I really wish I could go back further!

[nouse4anick_00]

shouldn't, if i can load a day at a time and go back as far as I want, then I see no reason why I can not go back 1k posts

[trixieleitz]

...load a day at a time...

That's restricted to Paid accounts, I believe for server load reasons.

[nouse4anick_00]

maybe, however the point remains, it cant be much more of a load then it currently is... even if they limit the number of posts per page to 100, it won't take any more server load to display 5 weeks than 2 weeks.

if it does they are doing it wrong =b

[flamencanyc]

I wish.

[lassarina]

oh how I wish, although I suspect the reason for the limitation has to do with server load.

[nouse4anick_00]

the server load cannot be much more then if you load up each day for the past year (and i can write a script to do that too!)

[andy]

A SUP // LiveJournal Russia Engineering person here. I believe that it's pretty much impossible for us to implement this right now, for the server load reasons. More specifically, the ?skip=xxx functionality is implemented in a manner similar to how the SQL LIMIT condition works, and that manner is very sub-optimal. Basically, in order for the software to show you ?skip=1000 posts, it needs to know what are these 1000 posts that are skipped, and given the complicated logic (take all of your friends, collect their posts from all the clusters, take into account the security settings they've set and maybe the other stuff), it becomes pretty much impossible to do online, while the user sits waiting for the page to load

[azurelunatic]

What are your thoughts on making the date-link available on the last ?skip= page, and making the date-pages link to the previous and next date?

[andy]

Responded over there. :)

[nouse4anick_00]

well it's kinda silly that if no one posts for a week the 2 week limit can be closer to 500 posts and not 1000. your telling me that you cant just make it the 1000 post limit?

I don't suppose there's a way to create a view for each user and their filters is there? that would take a lot of the time and guesswork out of the programing aspects... or how about maybe offer a truncated view pass the 2 week limit? (ie posting username, post title, and link to the post) that would give us however far back we wanted to go and it would reduce the load on the servers. and if not indefinitely how about the last 3 months or so? maybe try out a month and see how the servers deal with it? I doubt your going to get many requests for anything past that unless someone was gone for more than a month.