Pagination shrinks the amount of “things” Bubble will load from the server. So if you are using a fixed RG (amount of rows and columns is fixed) with X cells → Bubble will load only X “things” (plus related “things” for your nested RG). In the same time all fields of a “thing” are returned from DB even if you need only 1 field to display.
There is a couple of ways to reduce the amount of data:
- using satellite data types (you can have a satellite data type for using on search pages, for example. And within satellite data type you can have only fields you’ll need to display). But after new pricing model announcements I’m not sure if satellite data types maintenance (CRUD) will not become too expensive in WUs.
- using privacy rules (that’s not a solid solution, but it exists).
Josh mentioned that there are investigating in this area (here)