Mark Sapiro writes:
How significant an issue do you think that is?
Very, if you have 20K lists. Hacked the code to allow you to get all of them, which took forever to load but also was *way* faster to scan by eye, or search with Ctrl-F for that matter, if you weren't quite sure of a search term. The use case was that a lot of those lists were sequenced (eg, "commits-2022", "commits-2023"). They couldn't remember the "commits" part, but once they found it paged mode refreshed a lot faster as they made the changes they wanted to multiple lists.
Not my problem anymore (and it won't be theirs in this decade, QA/Security is really tightass there and they have the "unlimited page length" patch they need), but that use case does exist.
Not sure what harm the extra information does. If it seems distracting or ugly where it is, maybe it can be relocated to someplace on the page where that's less so but you can still find it if you need it.
I would be more in favor of a larger default (25 or 50, even 100), although I live in a bandwidth-rich country. Maybe that's not feasible in many places.
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