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  • Why 35 rather than 40
  • thepurist
    Full Member

    Anyone else noticed?

    binners
    Full Member

    Its ageist! Because that many posts would have meant life effectively beginning at… the start of the second page.

    So they’ve gone for 35, and the middle yoof market in an attempt to steal MBUK’s readership

    druidh
    Free Member

    Fewer posts per page = more pages
    More pages = more page hits
    More page hits = more advertising revenue

    Simple, innit?

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    jota180
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    I reckon it’s to mitigate the 41st disappearing post bug

    druidh
    Free Member

    Aye – coz now it’s the 36th disappearing post bug instead 🙄

    jota180
    Free Member

    Aye – coz now it’s the 36th disappearing post bug instead

    I didn’t think it did

    thepurist
    Full Member

    Aye – coz now it’s the 36th disappearing post bug instead

    I didn’t think it did

    Only one way to find out folks!

    clubber
    Free Member

    The disappearing post bug seems to be connected to deleted posts so I’d imagine that somewhere, the site’s code doesn’t account for the deleted posts affecting the reply count.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    druidh – Member

    Fewer posts per page = more pages
    More pages = more page hits
    More page hits = more advertising revenue

    Simple, innit?

    Are the advertisers that stupid?

    Advertiser – “Great that the figures have gone up by exactly 14% overnight, how did that happen?”

    stw – “carefully planned strategic marketing!” *whistles*

    I_Ache
    Free Member

    Cant say I have ever noticed a disappearing 41st post bug. Whats that all about then?

    clubber
    Free Member

    On threads where people have had posts deleted, if you post say the 41st post (eg the first post of a new page) it doesn’t appear until the number of posts goes up to match the number of deleted posts (well that’s my theory) – eg until someone posts the 43rd reply, you don’t see a second page (numbers based on the old 40 post pages)

    I_Ache
    Free Member

    Ohhh. Strange.

    druidh
    Free Member

    cynic-al – Member

    Are the advertisers that stupid?

    Advertiser – “Great that the figures have gone up by exactly 14% overnight, how did that happen?”

    stw – “carefully planned strategic marketing!” *whistles*Hmm – you may have a point Al. It would have to be done at the same time as some other major change to which the increased figures could then be “attributed”.

    I can’t think of any other big change which happened at Singletrack recently? Can you?

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    I dunno I don’t follow this crap FFS.

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