Forum - View topicSpace in the forums
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fighterholic
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I'm wondering, since there are two hundred and thirty three pages worth of threads in the anime forum, if some of the threads get automatically deleted if there isn't enough space to hold them all? I thought I saw that there was two hundred and thirty four pages sometime back, but I could have been wrong. I do know for a fact that some of the threads get deleted for reasons I don't need to mention, I've been on this forum long enough to know that.
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PantsGoblin
 SubscriberEncyclopedia Editor  Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
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I don't know if it's just me, but pages 232 and 233 don't seem to have anything on them.
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Kilgamayan
 Posts: 276 Location: Location, Location. |
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phpBB does have an auto-pruning system, but I can't imagine that a website like this would need to delete old topics to save space. I'm sure the encyclopedia and other content take up a lot more server room than the forum does.
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biliano
Posts: 956 Location: Cleveland, OH |
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If they want to save space, they should delete all of the locked threads, especially those that have less than 5 posts on them or are "duplicate topic" threads.
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Tony K.
Subscriber Moderator  Posts: 12080 Location: Frisco, TX |
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An explanation was given here and there in the past. I asked them if it takes up bandwidth or anything like that, but they told me it doesn't. Oh, well...
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undeadben
 Posts: 1212 Location: West Texas |
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It doesn't have a lot to do with bandwith, just size, and even this really isn't much. I'd imagine each forum page is only about 10kb to 50kb at the max. And I doubt ANN is concerned about the space issue too much as it encourages users to upload avatars rather than have them hosted offsite.
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Zalis116
Moderator
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I remember that there was a big forum reorganization / downtime shortly after I started posting here, and when they brought them back, the admins said that they were able to preserve the database of old posts. So, it seems like the ancient threads are safe for now, for all the noobs to necropost on the hottest news of 2003
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10539 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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phpBB forums:
37 table(s), 12,544,235 entries, 449.3 MB ANN's other tables: 125 table(s), 5,757,155 entries, 560.9 MB So all in all, phpBB is responsible for almost 50% of the site's database usage... We don't have any pruning of old posts/topics set up, and don't particularly need to either. We actually have several duplicate and development copies of most of the databases, so the "live" data is only about a quarter of the total DB space... -t |
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