I've started to write a new forum feature today. The idea is to do away with pages in threads and have new content load automatically when you get close to the bottom of the page. I'm sure you know this feature from various blogs and such.

This is still work in progress, in a few weeks it may be finished. But it's there and it basically works and since I'm a firm believer in "Release early, release often" you can try it now (if you're a registered member). At the bottom of your Look and Layout preferences is a checkbox for it. It is currently disabled by default.
If you want to try it, check the box, save and visit any thread that has several pages. Scroll down. Notice the slight lag when new content is loaded in the background. Hopefully I can make this better by optimising the code.

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I've started to write a new forum feature today. The idea is to do away with pages in threads and have new content load automatically when you get close to the bottom of the page. I'm sure you know this feature from various blogs and such.

This is still work in progress, in a few weeks it may be finished. But it's there and it basically works and since I'm a firm believer in "Release early, release often" you can try it now (if you're a registered member). At the bottom of your Look and Layout preferences is a checkbox for it. It is currently disabled by default.
If you want to try it, check the box, save and visit any thread that has several pages. Scroll down. Notice the slight lag when new content is loaded in the background. Hopefully I can make this better by optimising the code.

°SMA

I never really used that feature on Deviantart because I'm on dial-up, but putting that aside I never really liked that way of loading pages because if something goes wrong you have to scroll alllllll the waaaaay back down to where you left off, even on broadband. Whereas pages are kind of like waypoints I suppose. I'm sure there are plenty of people that like this way of doing it by scrolling down, so I'm glad you're doing it for their sake. I'd also like to thank you very much for making it optional so that those like me can still use nav point alpha, nav point beta, etc.

It will definitely stay an optional thing.

// I largely cleaned up the code tonight, some more fine tuning to do.
// I'm also considering to do the same for thread index pages once finished.

On the REALLY big threads that would be a nightmare. Imagine we had a thread like the "what are you playing" thread over on TTLG. Be a page so long its not funny.