It seems to me it would speed up the board if there was an option to allow all posts in a thread to be displayed on one page. You used to be able to do this by "Show"ing “Printable Version” and clicking on Display All.
(Of course it’d be preferable if you could set this as default in your user settings.)
Does VBulletin 3 no longer offer this option? 
I have to agree with this. Often when I run across a long thread that seems interesting, I will want to print it out and read it offline. (It helps that my office printer has a feature where I can print out multiple “pages” on a single page, and print double-side, so I can kill only a limited number of trees.)
I used to be able show a printable version and click on show all posts, so for the price of one server access (albeit a big one), I’d have the whole thread that I could print and read at my leisure. I’d like to have that feature again.
I think your addicted to Dope! 
Nonsense. It’s just that sometimes I have cause to be someplace where I’m looking for something to read but there’s no convenient internet access. Often, when I have started reading a long thread and realize that I’ll soon enter a white-tiled chamber where I may be sitting for a while, I’ll want to print the thread out to read it offline.
I’m talking about waiting for a train at the subway station by my office. What did you think?
The last time we tried fiddling with the number of posts that were allowed on one page, we found that allowing more than 50 tended to cause the pages to load too slowly. Having fewer than 50 posts, of course, meant that we’d have threads umpteen pages long. 50 posts seemed like a good compromise.
As for the “show printable version” option, the last I heard, the techs are still finding and attempting to fix bugs in this latest upgrade. I doubt that we’ll do much tweaking at all until the board is a good deal more stable. But that is just a conjecture of mine, not the official word from on high.
Thanks, Lynn. I don’t think that there’s any reason to go beyond 50 posts for normal display, but it is helpful in the printable view mode.
Well poop. That does kinda suck, Bill. I tried fudging the thing by appending the URL with ‘&pp=NNN’ where ‘NNN’ is the number of posts >50 to display and it simply ignores it. Works fine if ‘NNN’ is <50. Stupid thing.