A hard limit on the number of comments displayed per page

[lady_angelina]

Title
A hard limit on the number of comments displayed per page

Short, concise description of the idea
In addition to the overall limit of 10,000 comments per entry, I would also like each page to have a limited number of comments, regardless of number of top-level threads.

Full description of the ideaIt may not happen very often, but in communities

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Hmm. What about a modification of the current ?view=flat, taking one comment tree at a time? So you'd take the first comment tree on the entry, and then flatten that tree; once the tree's flat, you can easily paginate. Then do the same with the subsequent ones, so you'd have up to X comments per page, thread 1 first, then thread 2, and so on. This has a slight prayer of having more general context than pure ?view=flat, although internal branching would get a bit lost.

[mooism]

Whatever happens to the commenting system, once a comment appears in full on a particular page, it needs to continue to appear on that same page, otherwise links to it will break.

Fewer than 50 comments appeared in full on the page you linked to. It did seem to contain a lot of links to comments deeper in the thread though. Perhaps the thread display should prune the tree at a certain depth of comment placeholders.