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[Morrus]

Morrus please, you bloody well know that long threads are the single most important reason that the server has lagging issues so why on earth do you allow this one to run across the 400 post mark which we already established should be maximum. Although a max of 200 posts per thread would probably enhance performance even more.

Start a new thread already!!!

Don't be so rude. And I have no idea what you're talking about. You obviously have some admin-based knowledge about the server and policies that have been "established" that I don't know about.

Who decided this 400 post thing? You? I don't recall it.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Don't be so rude. And I have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm sorry but I thought you knew, hence my getting impatient as I can't email you to tell it (with email turned off)

You obviously have some admin-based knowledge about the server and policies that have been "established" that I don't know about.

Who decided this 400 post thing? You? I don't recall it.

No. I didn't. Pkitty and Darkness found that performance was enhanced when we slashed the Hivemind threads to a maximum length of 400 posts. Hence the big thread purge, remember?

EDIT: and it's a relatively simple issue really. Each time a long thread is viewed the server has to load the entire thread, and since long thread are also quite popular this quickly adds up.

EDIT2: of course, the biggest problem isn't here, but in the Story Hour forum. But I don't think it's a good idea to set a 'bad' example with this one.

 

[Morrus]

I'm sorry but I thought you knew, hence my getting impatient as I can't email you to tell it (with email turned off)

My email address is remarkably easy to find. It's on every single page of this entire website.

No. I didn't. Pkitty and Darkness found that performance was enhanced when we slashed the Hivemind threads to a maximum length of 400 posts. Hence the big thread purge, remember?

EDIT: and it's a relatively simple issue really. Each time a long thread is viewed the server has to load the entire thread, and since long thread are also quite popular this quickly adds up.

Well, if thread lengths are a problem, then the Story Hour and PbP threads are far more of a problem than this one is. Implementing a limit would adversely affect them; they're already screaming bloody murder about having email notification turned off. Goodness knows how they'd cope with a thread length limit too! Life is so hard for some people ...

 

[Kalanyr]

Actually the thread limit wouldn't be a big problem in PBPs, (less than the lack of email notification), its just a matter of making a new thread at X post and putting a link to the next one at the end of the old one (I remember doing it back when their was a 200 post/thread limit.). It'd be almost impossible in story hour though, since people actually read non-active threads that have 400+ posts, whereas that doesn't happen as often in PBPs (usually only the DM looking back for some important information).

 

[AGGEMAM]

My email address is remarkably easy to find. It's on every single page of this entire website.

Yeah, my bad. Doh.

Well, if thread lengths are a problem, then the Story Hour and PbP threads are far more of a problem than this one is. Implementing a limit would adversely affect them; they're already screaming bloody murder about having email notification turned off. Goodness knows how they'd cope with a thread length limit too! Life is so hard for some people ...

A quite large number of messageboard limits thread length to 200 posts (actually the excate limit where it starts to hurt is 255 but it's better to be on the safe side).

And yes, I already noted that in my EDIT 2, the Story Hour and PbP forum are the ones needing the biggest overhaul. And it really really really needs an overhaul, if not a general purge.

Haven't you noticed that all Hivemind thread are around 400 posts long? and a year ago they were all around 800 posts long? This limit was introduced as a means to keep the thread length down and performance up.

EDIT: And it's not really a big deal, it's just a matter of writing [continued] in the new thread and having a link to the older one, and having a link to the newer one in the old one.