New Forum: GC's Most Popular Discussions

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by John

The What do you feel like saying, right now? thread is still active. Although, I'm not sure it should be.



I think that would probably be a good idea. The "What do you feel like saying, right now?" thread has over 60,000 replies and is really slow.

Another forum software that I've been wanting to switch GC over to, Xenforo, is apparently very nicely optimized to handle the largest forum threads without too much trouble: https://xenforo.com/community/thread...hreads.217612/ Post #3 in that thread mentions Xenforo being able to easily handle millions of posts in a thread. By the way, the person posting that, "digitalpoint", owns one of the largest web publisher forums and is extremely familiar with the programming behind various forum systems.

So what I'm thinking regarding some of GC's most popular threads is that for now maybe we start new threads to continue the discussions there in smaller much faster threads. And once I have GC converted over to the Xenforo forum software we can consider reopening those super long threads. And, we can also even merge the new versions of those threads into the originals once the forum system here can handle it.

I think that thread is dead Lol. I tried to post twice on it, and my posts didn’t show up. Why is that?

GC is running much faster though. Thanks.

[John]

Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands

I think that thread is dead Lol. I tried to post twice on it, and my posts didn’t show up. Why is that?

Did you get an error message or anything? Or did nothing happen after you clicked to post your message?

If nothing was happening, look at your browser tab to see if there's a small circle spinning. If so, that's the browser waiting for the page to process and return to you. Problem with it is that the thread is so large that it takes a while for the forum to process because of how this forum software is designed. It may seem like nothing is happening for a minute or two sometimes with the longer threads.

I think I'm going to close those really large threads but I'll split off a bunch of messages into new smaller threads with the same thread names.

When GC is on Xenforo I'll see about getting those big threads back up & merged with the new comments.

[Phrozen Sands]

Originally Posted by John

Did you get an error message or anything? Or did nothing happen after you clicked to post your message?

If nothing was happening, look at your browser tab to see if there's a small circle spinning. If so, that's the browser waiting for the page to process and return to you. Problem with it is that the thread is so large that it takes a while for the forum to process because of how this forum software is designed. It may seem like nothing is happening for a minute or two sometimes with the longer threads.

I think I'm going to close those really large threads but I'll split off a bunch of messages into new smaller threads with the same thread names.

When GC is on Xenforo I'll see about getting those big threads back up & merged with the new comments.

I didn’t get an error message. It actually posted. It allowed me to read what I posted, but once I went away from it to another thread, when I came back to it, it was gone. It only showed you as the last poster.