The Default comments per page setting is a select list with the values -
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300

I want to have 15 comments per page on my forum pages, as is standard on vbulletin and phpbb forums. With drupal being so configurable I see no reason why the options for comments per page are so hard and fast. Is there any good reason why setting field couldn't be a textfield where the user can enter any value he/she desires?

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no2e’s picture

no2e commented
Version: 6.x-dev » 8.x-dev

I'm not sure if I'm correct, but I think this should now be a feature request for Drupal 8, right?

And I'd like to add to the feature request: add an option for unlimited comments (no comment pager) (e. g. set '0 = unlimited' or whatever).

Btw, this might be a possible way to overwrite it until it is in core:
http://drupal.org/node/594880#comment-2595054

sokrplare’s picture

sokrplare commented

Yes, should be against D8 - good call.

I've made the Unlimited comments option a separate feature request here #1540834: Add "Unlimited" option to number of comments per page

wim leers’s picture

wim leers
Location Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺
commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Very few people need this. That's why so few people have complained about this. In Drupal 8, you'll be able to simply change a YML file, import that, and be done with it.

sokrplare’s picture

sokrplare commented

Thanks for updating, Wim. In that case, we could simply set the YML file to a ridiculously high number of comments to effectively accomplish #1540834: Add "Unlimited" option to number of comments per page - so perhaps that should be closed out as well?

wim leers’s picture

wim leers
Location Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺
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#4: Yes. But… I'd advise against that. Drupal.org has set that setting to 300, and I'm not sure about you, but on my not-that-old-at-all-computer, that already takes quite a lot of time to render. Not to mention the nigh endless scrolling.

I'll update that other issue.