# Why was the design of the website changed?

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**Created:** [November 17, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-design-of-the-website-changed/925828 "2020-11-17T22:10:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 22, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-design-of-the-website-changed/925828/17 "2020-11-22T16:52:29Z")

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> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> > [@Godwin](#):
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> > this one doesn’t even allow page-saving for offline reading
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> I just found out that you can easily save a whole topic offline. Great discovery! 😀
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> **Press Ctrl-P** to save all the posts (or a range of posts) in a topic to a PDF file.
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> It has a preview and various settings. Takes only a few seconds and couldn’t be easier!

I do not believe that is true. Or at least it is not true on Chrome on Win10.

Under that OS/browser the print function will save only the posts that have been loaded to the browser. Which is typically a screen-full or so above and 2 or 3 screenfuls below wherever you’re sitting in the thread.

So this thread which has 17 posts counting mine will appear in its entirety in a print-to-PDF.

But a longer thread will not. Here’s a link to post #25 of a 50-ish post thread to play with:

> [@Statehood for Puerto Rico?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statehood-for-puerto-rico/921465/25):
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> Louisiana was admitted when French was the primary language of many of the inhabitants. The initial Constitution of the state required that laws be written in both languages and allowed both languages to be used in governmental debates.

I believe you’ll find that you can move around in the thread and wherever you settle you’ll get about 1 printed page above the “cursor” and about 7 below for a total of 8 or 9. No matter how long the thread is.

Again at least that’s so for Win10+Chrome. I suspect that’s true for other systems but have not checked.

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