Ask PG: Less items on each page?
Just wondering when and why you changed it from 30 to 25 items per page - mostly the why. Cheers :)
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Probably related to the MSM stuff that caused HN to get really slow yesterday. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985
He actually stated in the above referenced post that it was related to the traffic spike.
Where did he state it, I can't seem to find it?
"I turned on comment thread pagination to decrease the load. I'll turn it off tonight."
Comment thread pagination is not reducing the number of items visible on pages (eg, /newest, /ask, /news), it's splitting up comments onto multiple pages. Completely different things.
I took it to mean comment and thread pagination was turned on and or increased and therefore fewer items were shown on each page.
* Fewer