Omar Haddad

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

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For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

Adding a small note: the same idea applies on mobile, just with a bit more attention to tap targets.

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

Solid breakdown. The only thing I would add is to back up before making the change — better safe than sorry.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.