Meta (and sorry if it has come up before):
What would you all think about starting a fresh blog posts thread every 100 posts or so? As much as I love the megathread, I just know there are lots of great posts buried in the middle that won’t be seen by newcomers whose only options are basically to scroll from the beginning or the end.
This was the normal practice on Vbulletin forums back in the day, to lock/archive threads once they got super long to create a new crop of first posts.
There are 2343 posts in this topic. Discourse offers no automated way to split topics into individual topics by number of replies.
We can do this manually, selecting the posts 1-by-1.
How would I do this? Start at the top click through to the "select posts” option and select from 101 through to 2343 and keep repeating until we’ve got 23 topics 
The cool thing is that each topic will link to the new topic as we go through this.
Damn this is a mammoth task
I don’t necessarily think it needs to be done retroactively, or in exact 100s, more just a suggestion to close this one and then make it a habit to periodically close and start a new thread going forward.
Maybe discourse would make it easier to automate if the threads were monthly instead of by number of posts? I do not have the mod interface but I think there is a way to set a thread to automatically close at a certain date.
Cool, based off that info it looks like we can set topics to auto close monthly, and also schedule a new thread to open the same time.
There won’t be linking between the two so hopefully people will easily find the new topic
since the blogroll topic is pretty much always in the first few recent topics i dont think itll be too hard
I don’t think the thread size is a problem. I just check the posts I haven’t read yet. I also feel like everything being in one place is nice, I remember that the way things were done in older forums meant you often had to search multiple threads if you couldn’t remember which installment included a given post… but this is just my opinion.
i like the monthly thread idea but honestly keeping it as is or something else also works just fine
i think it would be nice to have a monthly topic!
since discourse is “infinite scroll” instead of having pages (my least favorite thing about it 
) it feels kinda frustrating to backread and to find older posts - you can’t just think, “oh, it was on page 4, i’ll go to page 4 of the thread,” you have to eyeball whereabouts in the scrollbar seemed right and then skim through everything… since people usually just link to their post with maybe a line about what it’s about, it can be hard to find stuff again via the search function.
I’m on mobile and slightly to the side there’s a progress bar that notes the number of posts and the post you’re looking at. Much like with thread pages, I just look at the number if I want to return later.
That said, I would love the option to see pages if that’s at all possible
The monthly topics is the something else
I’ve had a surf around support docs and Discourse does not support pagination in the traditional sense.
The infinite scroll is doing some type of pagination in the background.
Yeah I hear you. You could utilise the “search in this topic” capability, as long as you remember a couple of key words you should be good.
Alrighty, I’ve set the original topic to close at 11:59 pm on 31/10/25 (in whatever timezone the forums are), and the November topic will publish at 12:01 am on 01/11/25 (in whatever timezone the forums are).
If you’re luck you’ll have a 2 second window of not having anywhere to share your blog posts, lol
2 seconds? Oh, no! /s
Seriously? Thanks. I wasn’t going to say anything unless somebody else brought it up, but I agree with archiving long-running megathreads and starting fresh ones.
Awesome!
I like monthly because it’s a good unit of time for newcomers to skim all the posts from if they want to take the temperature before diving in. The megathread is sending lots of new visitors to the first few, ancient posts (just compare the click counts to those later in the thread) which are awkward to reply to years later.
It could also be a fun indicator to see how the volume of posts per month increases or if there is seasonality to it, etc.
That’s a shame, but it’s ok. We can live with it :p
I’ll do the same thing for the website updates topic next
I’ll be impressed if someone actually encounters this dead zone
we can get weirder… every 11 days, or every 2.5 months, every leap year!!
1 month and 2 hours so that at first it looks aligned to the months but the more we go the more the topics are delayed