Paging vs "show more"
Which do you prefer the board uses?
Paging - Threads with tons of posts are sorted into pages. "Show more" - A "show more" button at the bottom of every thread where users can click to show more posts.
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Paging.
I prefer to read things in chronological order since I'll have a good idea on how much posts I've read so far, and how many are left to read. The format in paging is also nicer since posts won't get nested multiple times which can make it look very constricted.
Pages are insanly better.
If I want to see what people are recently saying: jump to the most recent page. I want to see what people talked about at first: jump there. Jump to a quote, and see it in context of how many posts were made before and after it. Quickly get a sense of how the discussion changed by jumping to a few random pages.