Forums Pruned

[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")

[tonyw]

Wayne, the response to a new submission is certainly faster. It now seems to load the modified page in very quick fashion.

tony

PS I like the Submit/Preview buttons. Much more elegant.

[harvlaser]

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.

It's called "History."

Does your local library throw out books older than 120 days old?

AmigaZone has a "Press Releases/News" Message base that goes back over six years. It's easily and quickly searched, and nothing is ever deleted from it, except for the occasional spam that creeps in..

History is important, at least, it is to me. YMMV..

Harv

[Wilse]

quenthal wrote:
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")

Noooooo! Don't listen to him Wayne!  :-)

Seriously, "Talk About" is my favourite part of the site - it's why I spend about 20 times longer here than any other amiga related website. Actually forget the "amiga related", I spend about twenty times longer here than *any* other website. And "talk about" is the main reason.
Please don't change it too much.

[Glaucus]

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.

Well I can think of one great reason: For all those "how to" and "my Amiga is broken" questions that seem to come up again and again.  People could search the archives for answers to common questions instead of them being answered over and over again.  Same goes for developer information.  Not all the discussions here are pointless and meaningless!  

  - Mike

@Glaucus,

The problem is, NOBODY ever bothers searching.

[odin]

Wayne wrote:
@Glaucus,
The problem is, NOBODY ever bothers searching.

Just like a real library ;-).

[Glaucus]

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.

How about creating an "Archives" forum that contains ONLY stickies.  In otherwords no one could post into the archives, but of course can browse the sticky (or archived) posts.

Threads could also be compressed into .lha or .zip formats and stored in a downloads section.  OR you could just throw them onto Aminet and let them be someone else's problem.  ;-)

  - Mike

[harvlaser]

The problem is, NOBODY ever bothers searching.

I do, because your front page only lists ten "Forum" topics.. can't you expand it like you can expand the number of News items shown with one one of those pull-down thingies??..

Harv

@Harv

The "latest posts" link at the top of the forums doesn't help?

[tonyw]

Is it supposed to be usable by plebs? It tells me that I don't have authority to use it.

tony

Hmmm. let me look at it.  Registered users have access.

tonyw wrote:
Is it supposed to be usable by plebs? It tells me that I don't have authority to use it.

tony

[FarQuad]

As a regular user, I can vouch that I can get to it.  I couldn't earlier though.  Maybe log out and back in?

//FarQ

[Quixote]

Wayne wrote:

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

:-? This is probably not related to pruning back the older posts, but for some reason the HTML in my signature is no longer rendered correctly.  I haven't changed anything at this end.

[Mike_Amiga]

'Ery  ting cool man! :python: :-P

The ability to use HTML in signatures has been removed as a security precaution.  Please use BB code instead