You can search threads using the included search box. The intention is that paging takes the place of archival.

Paging could be effectively disabled by setting a high paging count, see bug 20961.

Paging cannot be used instead or archiving, (in twns support page)
since section counts are unrelated to the fact whether something is
done or not.

The MediaWiki search is not doing the same as the browsers search.
While it is of course nice to have both, MediaWikis search does not,
or hardly, work on some wikis.

I will not be disabling paging, as it mitigates performance problems.

My advice if you wish to avoid paging is:

• On your own installation, you can set $wgLiquidThreadsDefaultPageLimit to a high number (from r59623).

It may make sense for me to make it possible to view more than the paging limit on a particular page through user preference or display options. I'm changing the summary of this bug to reflect this.

See also bug 25055 for a sort of workaround.

This will become moot with the redesign and its infinite scrolling system.

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