Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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
I have to ask how much per thread.
The per-threadness affects searches of the threads table only -- front page, message center, probably no big.
But trimming the posts table is a bigger deal -- and once threads are closed a) posting diminishes some, probably and b) they definitely can be archived and removed entirely from the table.
I'd rather we do that before any Angel-rush, rather than after or during.
Hw about if we make spoilage lite a thread with a price on it's head?
Keep it open, but if a time comes when we have to drop something because of rising conections, it's closed.
Was there some sort of consensus as to location of archived threads? I remember discussion as to their being moved offsite.
Too bad we can't set up a duplicate site somewhere with just our archives, no posting.
Buffista Retro: The words that were. with downloadable zip files (Oh, I do miss bbs qwk packets) of threadsucks.
Buffista Retro: The words that were. with downloadable zip files (Oh, I do miss bbs qwk packets) of threadsucks.
Daniel, you do know that everything that's been archived *is* downloadable, right?
yes, ita, but I also know we can still read some.
I was imder the impression that reading the archives has the same effect on our simultanious connections that reading an open thread does. If this is so, moving them to somewhere else might alleviate some server hits.
Yeah, if we're trying to decrease table space, it seems to me the *first* thing to do is get all the closed threads off the board. And possibly figure out if there's some way to automate the process, since we go through Natter threads hella fast.
We ARE getting the closed threads off the board. But as DX has pointed out, there are some niggly not-automated time-consuming details that slow this process down a bit. But he and others are working that task.
DCJ, you can read closed threads in the normal fashion, but not archived threads. There's a difference. It's not archived until it shows up on the actual archive page.
I just read the original Buffista Bureaucracy.
I was a strident little newbie, wasn't I? Thank you for not holding it against me forever.
(As for lite, any route is fine with me. Greatest utility might be allowing whitefonted titles and writers in the main thread before the promos air, and allowing them with no restrictions post-promo, assuming Cindy's poll shows most of us are okay with that.)
I was a strident little newbie, wasn't I? Thank you for not holding it against me forever.
I think I remember you asking/daring everybody to ENUF you one time, and I was ready to take you up on it, but now I never would. That's happened to me a couple times, with people I would've Marcied if I could have on W/X, but who eventually won me over to like them. If we ever get PaulJ's noisy user filter here, I'm going to try to remember to clear my list every three months and give everyone a second chance.
We ARE getting the closed threads off the board. But as DX has pointed out, there are some niggly not-automated time-consuming details that slow this process down a bit. But he and others are working that task.
And I should be able to finish the ones I started this weekend, as it's three days of Not Working.
If I'm good, that means we should get most of them off the board.