Fugliness

TWIGO:CP and the Saloon bar would benefit more because they have a lot of unrelated threads, with a higher chance of ECs, and a huge db size overhead. The Forum is actually a partial solution to the same problem LQT is trying to solve, because it separates threads into individual pages, LQT goes further and makes each comment a separate page.

I am getting substantial load times on this page. Is it just me?

Nope. It's incredibly slow to load, and seems to be screwing up Firefox too - it's started taking up a lot more processor time than usual.

Problem is, if you had the same amount of comment traffic we do now, this version of LQT would increase the screen length what, four times? That's a hell of a lot of scrolling, and to my mind that makes things less readable, even with the benefit of doing away with the occasional EC (and they only ever happen to me occasionally, so to me they're not a big deal).

This layout on those pages would be a total disaster. We'd make the World's Highest Website look like a speed bump.