[masklinn]

> You still have to go through multiple pages in phpbb and similar old forum in long threads.

Except for long threads the start of the thread is usually irrelevant beyond the first page or so (if even that) so you can just jump to a few pages from the end and go from there. Good forum software remains comfortable to use at million-post threads, and will render 100-post pages in a small fraction of a second.

IME discourse's "infinite loading" nonsense is just slow and a mess. Go check the Rust discourse's crate of the week thread, it is a slow mess to navigate, the browser's scrollback gets hopelessly lost, and of course the in-page search is broken.

That's a thread of a thousand comments, it's quite literally nothing, and for all that it completely fucks up your history to boot.