Charles Webster 
, Feb 02, 2012; 01:47 p.m.
There has to be a better way for me to see my posting history than going to my Workspace page and then waiting for the site to retrieve all ~4,000 posts I've ever made on the site. Which times out almost every time when first submitted.
How about producing the same listing for just the last 30 days or .....? I'm not interested in following up on posts I made 5 years ago, but I'd like to find the 3 or 4 posts I made last week.
I know this site uses tons of legacy code, but it seems that it would be relatively easy to change the query submitted to the database from "all" to "the last 30 days" or something similar.
Thanks,
<Chas>
Rich Simmons , Feb 02, 2012; 02:20 p.m.
Matt Laur 
, Feb 02, 2012; 02:39 p.m.
+2 !
Or, see about some pagination in those results. But I think the 30-day default, with a See All Of It link makes far more sense. If the See All Of It Link has to time out four times while the database server's cache catches up (it usually takes me three or four tries), that's not so bad, considering I'd use that perhaps once a month, compared to using the 30-day view more than once a day.
Dick Arnold , Feb 02, 2012; 02:40 p.m.
Charles. I just did that a couple of minutes ago. I agree with you.
parv . , Feb 02, 2012; 02:49 p.m.
I need to be able to see the complete history of at least those posts for which I have uploaded (not linked) images here. So do provide that option if or when implementing changes listed above.
Louis Meluso 
, Feb 02, 2012; 03:15 p.m.
Josh Root 
, Feb 02, 2012; 03:19 p.m.
I'm very nicely asking Jin to look into it again.
Bear in mind, it's not like I don't want this to happen or that I haven't brought it up in the past. It's just that this stuff is never as simple as it seems. Typically, almost anything is possible, particularly when you have a programmer like Jin, but a lot depends on just how many man-hours (and sometimes hardware) you have to devote to any one thing.
Matt Laur , Feb 02, 2012; 04:15 p.m.
I'm guessing, Josh, that this would actually reduce the load on your back end DB. Could be wrong, but I have to think that loading up those thousands of records really beats the snot out of things, unnecessarily. Good luck, Jin!
Josh Root , Feb 02, 2012; 06:18 p.m.
Tom Mann , Feb 02, 2012; 06:31 p.m.
That is utterly astonishing! It pulled down all my posts in the past 90 days in about one second. Wow! Thank you, Josh, and thank you, Jin.
Tom M
PS - And took about 15 seconds when I clicked on the "retrieve all posts" link, ie about the same length of time, or maybe slightly faster than it usually takes to do this.
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