Just add page numbers like every other website so you can easily and reasonably navigate to where in the post you want. This current way sucks like a black hole. SUCKS!
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It does slow down the searching hard. Sometimes I do search older threads and I just did that today, like 30 mins ago, and the loading is a pain. It was way better when we had to manually press another page, because you sometimes knew that something important was on page 2 and page 5, now you have to scroll down like an idiot and waste even minutes to find something. Iād also want the pages back.
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canāt we just revert or keep the old UI as it was?
+1 to the pagination. Infinite scrolling is wrong.
Iād like to suggest we rename Rallia the witch to whoever made this wonderful new forum design, so I can burn them at the stake.
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So before you needed to remember page numbers, now you need to remember post numbers. Or, even better, bookmark posts you want to have easy access to so you donāt have to remember. Itās one of those little functions that make Discourse great.
Good news, Discourse is fully customizable, so if you know how you can code a UI that clones the old vB layout. Then convince Crate to use it. Done 
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Actually the search function is amazing in this forum
Before that i was searching for a particular post and with the bar i was like this
Search funtion tho <3
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Iād like to see what I am writing, but canāt scroll it because the header bar, and because itās an overlay.
Mobile keyboards sizes are often adjustable. Time to size it down a lil perhaps.
Itās not going to be for everybody. I personally find it much more intuitive, and itās friendlier for mobile.
And as was mentioned, the search function is much more powerful and using ctrl-f can actually search an entire thread now instead of whichever page you have open.
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Itās also actively developed, you can summon a developer by mentioning them.
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eh, still a pain when my browserās UI is out. And my keyboard is fine, if I donāt have to deal with screen estate parasites like discourse.
I didnāt mean that searching. Read the whole message before replying.
I mean thatās basically it. The design feels like itās made for mobile, without a more desktop friendly option. Iām sure Iāll get used to it, but for now itās a pain on desktop.
Frankly, I read the whole thing and I just reread it again now (ya know, to humor you ) and Iām not seeing how my reply doesnāt apply to what you wrote regardless. See that little box on the search, the one about searching the thread?
Seems to me that would ācut downā on all kinds of time, since youāre so concerned about it a minute here, a minute there. Helps too that the search here is miles beyond what we used to have.
Iāll say it differently then, I want to search for a thread from a year ago, I canāt do that now because I only know there was āconversionā in the title, so I have to search all the threads before I can spot the thread I wanted. I canāt bookmark every page because how am I supposed to know Iāll need to prove something to someone that was mentioned 1 year ago? At this point Iād have to bookmark every thread I see because if Iāll need something I will be basically unable to search it and I donāt have a whole day to search 25 scrolls of threads every time I need to check an older message. I consider scroll searching a fail design, and I wonāt use it at all if Iāll need to check an older message now.
Okay now I even hate this forum more. I didnāt even see thereās something like this. Itās stupidly hard to see and not available in the main page because the āsearch the GD categoryā is selected and how the fuck am I supposed to know I have to uncheck it to see āoptionsā text.
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Now on that point Iāll give it to you 
that this is something they may be able to tweak to make more apparent. If something isnāt clear then just let 'em know. Maybe theyāll be able to fix it for ya.
Itās new forum software. Theyāre still learning what to do with it Iām sure.
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Someone will definitely be able to fix that, just not here, but at the Discourse end. Iām not sure someone from the developers is registered here. Used to be the case at another place I once visited, there you could simply mention them and start a conversation. Actually got a bug fixed that way once.