# Number of posts per page? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554 "2011-11-20T16:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/1 "2011-11-20T16:13:48Z")
The forum defaults to 50, but you can change it to various other values in your profile. Just curious; I use 100 myself. The oddity is that it doesn’t count the OP, so that my first page actually has 101 posts, tho every subsequent one is 100. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/2 "2011-11-20T16:24:26Z")
200, the only real option. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/3 "2011-11-20T18:08:29Z")
1. It really doesn’t make much difference most of the times, but it comes in handy when playing Mafia games, because I always know instantly which page Post 2374 is on. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/4 "2011-11-20T18:14:07Z")
never cared enough to reset it ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/5 "2011-11-20T18:22:39Z")
I max it out. ---
**Author:** ![Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambihelical_Hexnut)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/6 "2011-11-20T18:38:35Z")
50 - I didn’t even know it could be changed. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/7 "2011-11-20T21:21:27Z")
200 - why click if I don’t have to. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/8 "2011-11-20T21:28:19Z")
I max it out as well, and can understand **Suburban Plankton** ’s reasoning. I’m kind of interested in why 20 and 5 were chosen. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/9 "2011-11-20T21:46:17Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > I max it out as well, and can understand **Suburban Plankton** ’s reasoning. I’m kind of interested in why 20 and 5 were chosen. I chose 20 because I can keep my place in a thread better with fewer posts per page. Also I’m just weird. I don’t like long chapters in books either. I don’t think I could explain it in a way that would make any sense. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/10 "2011-11-20T22:09:46Z")
I voted the default 50, but I’ve been meaning to change it to 100 or more to see how I like it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/11 "2011-11-20T22:35:06Z")
I tried 200, but it slows down page loads on my old computer. So I went back to 100. ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/12 "2011-11-20T23:36:26Z")
1. I always set it to whatever the highest number for whatever forum I’m on. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/number-of-posts-per-page/603554/13 "2011-11-21T03:58:58Z")
I’ve left it at 50 to avoid clogging up the tubes unnecessarily.