Forums Pruned

Pursuant to the announcement the other day, the forums have now been pruned to 120 days.  This has gotten rid of about 35000 posts, and diminished the database size by about 30 mb.  

I know the CPU appreciates the change, but let us know if the site feels any different or you notice errors.

why does it even need to be 120 days old?... I mean seriousely.. I'd think 30 days of archive is enough....or even 7 days... who needs the giant archive... I doubt anyone here really looks back that far.

[GadgetMaster]

@mips_proc

I doubt anyone here really looks back that far

Sometimes its useful, such as when searching for an obscure link that someone might have posted.

@Wayne

Everything seems to be working fine. No problems noted.

Sometimes yes but ive noticed in most cases you can just ask agian for that link from ... and people seem to know what you mean. I think a mounth is good i forget to check my posts after a day or so anyway.

[cyka_delik]

i don't generally check that far back. though some might.

[amigamad]

With all the new members there must be quite a lot of space used by forum posts and if it goes back a 120 days why not cut it to 60 or 90 days. Site works fine as always .

[whabang]

I haven't found any problems, but please don't remove more!

[Wilse]

Hi Wayne,

but let us know if the site feels any different or you notice errors.

I've noticed twice today that forum topics have not turned red, even though they contain new messages.
I don't know if it's my browser or what but I never noticed it before.

No real problem.
Just letting you know. :-)

I'd say about 30 days.
Most people stop posting and lose interest on a thread after a week or so. That's my experience anyway.

please don't remove more!

I understand that some topics are important, butthe problem is, if we preserve those, they're marked as "sticky" topics and moved to the top of the sticky list.  I don't know how well it would work to have five pages of sticky topics, some of which will be very old.

[Argo]

Why not 24 hours...?

Argo,

Now you're simply being "silly"...  Remember, not everyone checks here every 24 hours.  It's a forum, not an IRC chat

Some conversations will and do need to be preserved for prosperity.  We're looking at possibilities.

Wayne

[vortexau]

Wayne said:

Some conversations will and do need to be preserved for prosperity. We're looking at possibilities.

Wow! So some time in the future there may be CDs available named -
"AmigaOrg Troll-fests, Flame-wars, and other tales of Digital Angst vol-1,2,3"?

:-D

[Argo]

Wayne:
   Well, yeah, I though a week was too short. 120 to 90 days seems like it should be good enought.
Then again, 24 hours... Okay, since you say people don't check that often, how about 24.6 hours (a Martian day). It would cut those 15+ page topic down considerably... not to mention flames...
Your right too silly.

Any idea what the problem is? Is it really the size of the database or in combination with the amount of traffic?

[quenthal]

I think that "normal" messages in "talk about" could be cleared after a few days/weeks, but discussion on hardware/software problems would be nice to stay on longer (="forever")