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As our community grows, the technology which fuels it must adapt. It's a feature employed by countless news sites, social networking sites, and web communities large and small. It's been overlooked by Newsvine thus far because, until recently, our tight-knit community has been too small--though not to its detriment--to require it. However, the glaring need for it has been exposed by a recent article seeded to us by MSNBC.com. It's a simple feature, so I will keep this brief and discontinue the fluff-for-the-sole-purpose-of-raising-word-count that has been this entire first paragraph.
We need some sort of functionality for splitting very large comment threads into multiple pages. I had never even considered this completely rudimentary feature as a necessity or even a neat thing to have until I visited this article after coming home from work tonight. I tried (and persevered to the bloody end) to post a comment on it, but was frustrated to no end by the fact that my browser kept lagging for a good 15 seconds for every 3 seconds I attempted to type.
I opened the task manager and discovered that, inexplicably, Firefox kept jumping to 100% CPU usage every few seconds. I figured maybe it was one of the other processor-intensive tabs I had opened, so I closed the rest of them (which in itself took way too much time and effort due to the intense lag). Finally only that single Newsvine tab remained, and yet the problem continued, which served to confuse me even more. Then I finally finished submitting my comment, was taken back to the top of the page, and noticed the comment count. Holy everliving crap is that a lot of comments. No wonder Firefox was making such a concerted effort to mutilate my processor.
Please, Newsvine. Implement this feature. Or at least consider it. Or at the very least, put it in the queue of new features to add later on down the road, when articles like this start to become more frequent. No, I am not using the most 1337 h4x0r system in the world, but I'm not exactly running on DOS, either. I'm running a Celeron 2.5 GHz processor with 768 MB of RAM. I can run Morrowind and Counter-Strike with respectable framerates. One would assume that my system would thence be up to the task of keeping up with an entirely text-based news website, but alas, it met with that beast of an article, it fought, it struggled, and it lost. I'd be genuinely surprised if I were the only one.
