I feel silly for asking this but I couldn't find much information about it anywhere else.

In the forums settings page (My Home -> Profile Settings -> Forums Settings) there is an option to choose the number of topics shown per page, and also an option to choose the number of messages shown per page in a thread.  I can set the "Topics per page" to 100 and click save and it works fine, but when I try to do this with "Messages per page" it defaults down to 50.

I found a user in this thread mentioned the same issue but it was never addressed: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=24&th...

I mentioned it when the new layout happened on 4/1/2013.

It's a small issue, but would be nice to see 100 posts on a page if I wanted to.

Yep, me too!  I have next to no web development skills, but this seems like a bug rather than lack of functionality.  I'd love to view 100 posts per page (Really I'd like to view as many as I want, but 100 is plenty).  If this is a quick fix it'd be nice.  If there's some strange underlying reason why this is difficult to do, then it's no big deal.

Probably limited to due to the bandwidth it would take up. It's not a bug, that's for sure. Think of if 100 people have it set to 50 posts/threads per page, that's a lot of server load in a very, very short period of time, then double that if it were set to 100, and then consider how much you're browsing NA. Assume that people stay on a page, at average, of 1 minute, browse NA for an hour on average, that's 60 clicks per user at 100 users, that's 6,000 clicks. Say each page load is 5k, that's 30 MB in a short period of time which, no, isn't a lot, but assume that's the average per hour, that's 720 MB a day, which is over 2 GB a month. I'm sure the usage stats are significantly higher, but I'm sure it's for a performance purpose.

Ah, so my reasoning was wrong on both accounts: it's not a bug or hard to implement, just disabled in the interest of bandwidth. I didn't even think about that side of things. Maybe Dain can chime in about it.

Actually, this is a bug after the update, where I had intentions of reinstating the 100 messages per page value. When you save the form, it reverts it to 50 per page, so that's a bug.

Originally, it was due to what dra600n said, which was more or less site stability. We're doing a bit better in that department now, so I reenabled it.

You should be able to choose 100 now if you want to. Any more than 100 and I see no point other than to waste bandwidth.

Excellent, thanks I hope this doesn't cause any issues though.

If the site breaks, I'm blaming you!