I have faster than DSL and would love for 250 to work. My complaint and a mild one given the needs is that even though I have it set at 250--because of the load on the system, John has it lowered to 20 automatically. I don't get my 250! Minor whine. Very minor.
LOL.
"I have faster than DSL"
Sell me some bandwidth;)
I can't remember who was doing the Shep bashing earlier in the thread - saying that all he had to do was tell those people on the highway to go get help from the staging center below I10 near the SD but he wouldn't cuz he wanted the images and the "story" - but I believe they are wrong.
I saw a repeat of where Fox tossed to the female reporter - Anita Vogel - and she said she was below I10 in Jeff. parish, just outside of the city. People were spread out over the grass - and were getting food and water there.
Idon't know how far this would be from Shep's location.
I think what happens is the server decides maximum page size, and if your preference is over that limit, the server makes pages (for you) of minimum size.
My default is 100 posts per page, and I am getting 100 post pages right now.
I do agree that the TOP of the post should be shrunk to a bare one-liner, with the balance of SAME information and links appearing as comment #1 (all of this is done in the "make a post" screen). That is the optimum arrangement for long-running threads.