# A question as to the absense of 'All', e.g., " 1 2 All" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 5, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014 "2005-03-05T02:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/1 "2005-03-05T02:50:08Z")
Wasn’t the feature (illustrated below in italics): **Lookit this big ball o’ lint I found!** ( 1 2 3 4 _All_ ) Sally Badden that allowed a user to read a whole thread without regard to page divisions in the old version? If so, why was it disabled? Has there been other requests than this one as to this? ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/2 "2005-03-05T08:25:01Z")
I don’t recall there ever being an “all” option. It’s been 1,2,3,4,5,6…Last Page for as long as I can remember, ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/3 "2005-03-05T12:26:24Z")
I’m with **Berkut** , I don’t recollect an “all.” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/4 "2005-03-05T19:54:40Z")
You’re probably remembering that in the past you could do that with the printable version of a thread. Last time I tried it with the corrent software, you get max 50 posts per page. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/5 "2005-03-05T19:55:17Z")
Whoops, sorry about that. I’m sure I was recollecting another board. In any case, is that an option with vBulletin, and has there been other queries similar to mine? Just wonderin’. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/6 "2005-03-05T22:24:59Z")
Some of the threads on these boards are 7, 8, 12… pages long. It’d take an awful loooooooong time to load them with all the posts on one page. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-as-to-the-absense-of-all-e-g-1-2-all/293014/7 "2005-03-06T18:55:13Z")
If you have a fast enough connection, they load fairly quickly. Even on dial up I used to view all pages in the printer friendly format because it makes it easy to save the whole thread in one shot for later reference when not online. Would it be difficult to bring that feature back?