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Hi ginevra.
Don't feel offended about this, because that is not my intention (after all, you are the person giving us feedback from your company, which I am grateful for), but to "agree to disagree" is only for matters of opinion. For thechnical matters like this, either you are right and we are wrong, or vice-versa. Maybe you are right, I don't deny that possibility completely, but then that would mean that we are wrong.
My thesis, specifically, is that displaying all (5000?) comments in one page will not collapse anything (servers, clients, whatever). That can be basically either right or wrong, and we don't need to agree to disagree unless your company refuses to test it. If you say that testing the limits is complicated, I will take your word and give you some slack (although, to my little understanding, the testing would basically consist in changing 100 for 5000 in whatever lines of code that number appears, and see if anything collapses...)

Thank you, ginevra, but the only difference between 100 and 10,000 comments is text, and 1 GB of text is a BIG HEAP of text... and even 1GB is not much for normal fast connections. Those with really very, very slow connections, as you say, will set a 100 comment limit by themselves, no? The point is: you can leave the 100 comment as default (or even 25) as long as you place an "all-comments" link (or a "9,999-comments" link, if you like) for the user to click.

"Show all coments"-link +1.
Listen, you can try 1000 times to avoid the issue, or to try to convince us that so-many-comments is enough... but we know what we want. We want all the comments in one page (for text searches, etc. etc.)
With today's technology, it is simply impossible that displaying all the comments in one page will collapse anything (servers, clients, whatever). So what is the real reason? If you want to put in more publicity, can't you make the ads or banners change automatically after so many minutes? I can't figure it out. Please tell us the real reason why you force us to paginate. I just can't believe you prefer to have unsatisfied users... but that is undoubtedly your choice.

I would also very much like to be able to access (and search) older threads.
You, as a company, have been keeping TW's archives. It is extremely unacceptable if you lose them.

Andrew: with all due respect, your company should know 50 comments per page is just unacceptably too little for certain blogs/uses. I don't know how it came to anybody's mind that could ever be ok. You should be able to have them all together in one page for multiple reasons (searches, save a thread... I just cannot believe your company does not know!) At least give the option to continue using the previous version...