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Set "Do not return me to the thread" as default?

Confused

Confused

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Is there a way to set this to always happen, like in the Profile or something? Because I would quite like to be able to have this, as, most times I reply to a thread, all I do is go straight back to the topic listings anyway, it would cut down just a little bit of bandwidth used by yourselves 🙂

I don't go in OT much, so most threads I reply to won't have 18 more replies than when I first started typing mine! 😉


Confused
 
I agree 100%. For some reason almost all messageboards I frequent return you to the thread after posting. This is just an annoyance (and a leech of bandwidth 🙂).
 
@beetle

When you reply, you can check the box that says, "don't return me to thread".

I realize the OP is saying to have an option to set this as default...
 
It's BEATLE! 🙂 Thanks for the heads up on that box. This would be nice to be able to set as the default, especially because there is no such checkbox below the quick reply textbox.
 
OK, an example:

A 25 post thread, set to show 50 posts on one page. Normally, you would load the data for those 25 posts (say 3k each post, as an example, including icons, smilies, all the other information etc) is 75k of bandwidth.

You click reply. Another 75k of bandwidth. You reply, and it loads the thread again, plus your post, so that's 78k bandwidth more. That's 228k for one thread.

Say you click the "Do not return me to this thread" box in this example. Bandwidth usage = 150k.

You use Quick Reply, without this option, you have to load 153k

You have this option, and use quick reply, only 75k bandwidth used.



So, basically, if you can enable this by default, then you can reduce the bandwidth transfers, and therefore cost, by about 2/3s for EVERY thread someone goes into and replies!


Garry
 
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