Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1207741-20140525021738/@comment-25075055-20140526111241

I realise I never replied to a point that TTF said about all discussions happening in one thread.

You need to realise that "mega threads" like that do not work. They never have and they never will. You cannot expect people to search through a thread of thousands of posts, expecting them to find their answer, they will just create a new topic. Also, there's the fact that Wikia have not yet introduced the ability for a thread to be paginated (aka, split across pages) so every single reply is loaded on one page and, for those people who navigate the site on a tablet or mobile phone, is impossible to use and harms the ability for users to contribute.

I am strongly against ANY suggestions for mega threads and do not see them being useful whatsoever. 50 threads on the same topic with a few replies per topic is better than one thread with 1k posts that nobody can load or browse.

To put this into perspective, I loaded up a site that allows me to measure how long a web page takes to completely load, using a random assortment of threads from this site: the results are below: As you can see, threads with fewer replies load faster: conversely, the more replies a thread generates, the slower it starts to become.
 * Thread 1 [231 replies]: 11.525 seconds to fully load
 * Thread 2 [2 replies]: 2.523 seconds to fully load
 * Thread 3 [61 replies]: 4.774 seconds to fully load

I hope this helps in the decision making.