# Could the size of ATMB be made bigger? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794 "2006-07-17T00:55:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/1 "2006-07-17T00:55:18Z")
It’s just that with the amount of stickies in here now, there’s only three spaces for actual alive threads. Could ATMB be expanded so more of the newer threads are visible? ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/2 "2006-07-17T00:56:34Z")
Hmm. I miscounted, and there’s actually four. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/3 "2006-07-17T01:09:25Z")
I’ve got 50. Did you sign up for the upgrade? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/4 "2006-07-17T01:14:52Z")
Click on “User CP,” then “Edit Options,” scroll down to “Thread Display Options’” finally to “Number of Posts to Show per Page.” Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/5 "2006-07-17T01:19:48Z")
> [@Contrapuntal](#): > > Click on “User CP,” then “Edit Options,” scroll down to “Thread Display Options’” finally to “Number of Posts to Show per Page.” Enjoy! That just changes the number of posts per page; I’m talking about threads per forum. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/6 "2006-07-17T01:45:21Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > That just changes the number of posts per page; I’m talking about threads per forum. Just under the ‘number of posts per page’ setting in the user CP is the ‘Default Thread Age Cut Off’. I’ve got mine set at ‘Show threads from last two days’, which setting shows 4 nonsticky threads in ATMB at the moment. If I set it to ‘Show threads from last 100 days’ it’ll show a lot more, but also for other forums. There _is_ ‘use forum default’ option, so an Admin could set different numbers for each forum. I don’t know if they’ve done that. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/7 "2006-07-17T02:08:40Z")
The default is two days or 50 posts per page, whatever comes first. You can adjust it to suit yourself, but I don’t think it sets for each forum area, it’s a blanket thing. The sets for the default are also blanket and not per forum area, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/8 "2006-07-17T02:57:18Z")
At the bottom of each forum page you can set the defaults for that specific forum. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/9 "2006-07-17T11:12:21Z")
> [@FatBaldGuy](#): > > At the bottom of each forum page you can set the defaults for that specific forum. No, that will show you on a one-time basis what choices you make from the drop-down menu, but it will not make global changes in the rest of the site or hold those choices in default. In the User Control Panel (User CP hyperlink on most every SDMB page) you can change your defaults view, but it affects all forum areas. It’s all or nothing at all. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/10 "2006-07-17T11:31:38Z")
> [@Revenant Threshold](#): > > It’s just that with the amount of stickies in here now, there’s only three spaces for actual alive threads. Could ATMB be expanded so more of the newer threads are visible? Or, better yet, combine the info in the stickies, weed out ones that no longer apply, or are no longer ‘news’. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/11 "2006-07-17T11:46:00Z")
> [@wring](#): > > Or, better yet, combine the info in the stickies, weed out ones that no longer apply, or are no longer ‘news’. That could work. I’m sure the “SDMB is switching to paid subscriptions” thread isn’t really needed any more. Anyway, thanks for your help, various posters and admin. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/12 "2006-07-17T12:20:38Z")
Back to the original question, yes, there’s too many stickies. We’ve been sort of working at it on and off, but it’s been a low priority. We’ll see what we can do in the next week or two. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/13 "2006-07-17T20:18:43Z")
I did notice that all the Cafe Society stickies were consolidated a while ago. Excellent work! ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/14 "2006-07-17T20:42:46Z")
We have been working to consolidate stickies in other forum areas; getting to them as we can. We will also throw this stuff into a FAQ some fine day too. Really. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-the-size-of-atmb-be-made-bigger/364794/15 "2006-07-17T21:48:58Z")
Just in case there’s still any confusion, consolidating all of the stickies would not increase the number of threads shown in ATMB unless the date range were extened. However, ATMB will display all the threads with the last post inside the date range, just like any other forum (just don’t expect it to hit the second page).