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Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands
Hey John, I’m curious. Although we can’t view or post on those threads, do you think it’s possible that just the fact they’re still here, does that cause weight on the forum? Do they still impact the forum?
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Probably will have barely any impact while stored away.
The main impact from the extremely long threads comes from this old forum software needing to do something with all 60,000+ posts (in the one general chat thread example), reading them & sorting them, just to display the last page which only has a few posts on it. Ideally the forum software would only read from the database what it needs to in order to build only the specific page that was requested, rather than reading everything in the entire thread.
You'll be able to view & post on the new much shorter versions of those threads today, I'll have them back up soon.
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