I'd like to see pagination stripped out based on an "Unlimited" option for the number of comments. This is especially important for SEO as two pages of comments cause different URLs for the same main page content.

Was toying with building this out myself, but was hesitant there would be unexpected far reaching effects - are there? If not I might be able to submit a patch for this.

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sokrplare’s picture

sokrplare commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

Oops, wrong version for a feature request!

Also, loosely connected to #849246: Make "Default comments per page:" field a textfield

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wim leers
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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

First: Google is smart enough to not penalize you for this. Drupal.org clearly doesn't suffer from it.

Second: I'd advise against this. Drupal.org has configured it to 300 comments per page, and I'm not sure about you, but on my not-that-old-at-all-computer, that already takes quite a lot of time to render. Not to mention the nigh endless scrolling.

Third: Very few people need this. That's why so few people have complained about this. In Drupal 8, you'll be able to simply change a YML file, import that, and be done with it. You can then just set it to a very high number, if you'd like. e.g. 1 million.

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sokrplare commented

Thanks for closing - makes sense to me with the YML config option now available. Our (major client company) SEO team advises differently re: Google penalizing, but I'd sure have guessed Google wouldn't penalize either. Regardless, this resolves things for me.