Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
DX, given that, why not move ALL closed threads off this board? Leave them up for ONE WEEK, no more than that. Then we put the in "The Attic."
We could have them hosted by Fangeek, at a pretty minimal price (I know da owners, I'll haggle). That should lighten the "click through" load on the server, substantially. The threads would be available for read only, just not on this board.
They don't have to be here.
Of the 1000 registered users, 180 posted in the first 10 days of August. This doesn't indicate how many lurked, and how many unregistered posters read.
So, having 100 users hitting either "post" or "read new" at the same time isn't so far fetched. That's not good news.
They don't have to be here.
The zipped & archived threads aren't in the database anyway, though. They're not causing any problems, AFAIK.
There's 15 closed threads on the board.
They're in the process of being archived. DX is working on it.
We can do that, but it takes a few hours apiece to go through them and get them into shape for archiving, and you need to be a stompy to do the required editing. For example, a long URL is only a minor inconvenience when encountered in a thread, because you just go to the next page and the page width goes back to normal, but if it's allowed to stay in the archived file, the whole file is going to be a royal pain to read.
To be honest, I don't think the closed threads are that much of a drain on resources. They take up room in the database, but I suspect those posts aren't accessed that much. It would be different if the search function was still active, and people were constantly running searches on all the threads, but search is disabled.
The resources are being used mostly to read and post in the active threads, and to update the message center.
Sweet. Good job, DX, and while you're at it, I need some new bookshelves.
(And I should have added, if a hand is needed with that, I've got a lot of free time these days.)
The bookshelves are in my basement, sweetie. All you need to do is come get them...
My turn for something of a crosspost, from lightbulbs.
You know, if we really want to cut down on the problem, the rinky-dink little threads are not what we should be talking about.
We should be talking about cutting Natter loose, yo.
Everybody's always complaining about how they can't keep up.