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Forums haircut
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:18 amby pete
I've deleted the 1st year of threads on this forum. Mainly FS2002 has been trimmed with the post count being about halved in that forum.
Hopefully no bad side to this. Part of keeping things trim & useable.
Now I am hoping users will be able to register during peak times - which they haven't been able to do lately.
If not may have to trim a little more off the bottom ...
Re: Forums haircut
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:07 amby Fozzer
Good news for all those elderly (or not so elderly?) members still with a goodly crop of hair....
...!
...do I detect it's time for a larger (expensive) hard drive, Pete...
...?
LOL...
...!
Cheers...!
Paul...
...!
Re: Forums haircut
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:29 amby ozzy72
Things seem to be smooth! Now to find some more linked/oversized images and delete them
Re: Forums haircut
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:58 amby pete
It's not the disc space - it's the weight of the forums & how the scripts can handle the number of posts -
Yabb simply doesn't perform well over about 400K posts & it's an ongoing thing to make things work OK.
Re: Forums haircut
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:05 amby Craig.
Isn't there some way you can save the parts of the forum less visited like the FS98 board to a seperate website and link to it to take some of the weight off this forum? Perhaps also its time for a picture delete of anything upto as recent as 3 to 6 months old. ???
Re: Forums haircut
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Thu Feb 23, 2006 4:56 pmby Saitek
I'm all for the eradication of FS98 and the weight of it on the site downloads section.
Re: Forums haircut
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Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:56 amby BFMF
Now to find some more linked/oversized images and delete them
I'll help
Re: Forums haircut
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Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:48 pmby Triple_7
Could shave the screenshot and photo forums a bit. If i'm not mistaken all pictures were deleted from a year back. All those now empty threads are still hanging around without any shots in them
Re: Forums haircut
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Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:25 pmby legoalex2000
Could shave the screenshot and photo forums a bit. If i'm not mistaken all pictures were deleted from a year back. All those now empty threads are still hanging around without any shots in them
I second the motion...
ramos
Re: Forums haircut
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 3:21 pmby Hai Perso Coyone?
I second the motion...
ramos
And I third it
Re: Forums haircut
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:21 pmby Souichiro
I fourth it...
Re: Forums haircut
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Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:47 pmby legoalex2000
I fourth it...
and I Fifth it
ramos
Re: Forums haircut
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Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:28 amby pete
Could shave the screenshot and photo forums a bit. If i'm not mistaken all pictures were deleted from a year back. All those now empty threads are still hanging around without any shots in them
Can't be done. It's all or nothing. Individual boards can't be individually cropped.
If they could I would keep the graphics section at 30 days all the time.
Re: Forums haircut
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Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:43 amby Craig.
Pete, Why not just delete all the threads more than 18 months old? Ok the occasional person searches for the answer they want, otherwise they just ask anyway. So I really cant see much harm in a significant removal.
Re: Forums haircut
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Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:15 amby pete
Pete, Why not just delete all the threads more than 18 months old? Ok the occasional person searches for the answer they want, otherwise they just ask anyway. So I really cant see much harm in a significant removal.
Because a lot of the tutorials - particularly design - go back further.
One design tutorial is worth 1000 ordinary threads.