I’m generally not a big fan of erasing history, and so will often go a long way to ensuring that old news and forum content is still available to access. But the discussion forum today is getting rather big, with threads going back to c.2002/2001 ish. A lot of that dates from the dialup and early ADSL era.
Between ancient threads and related attachment files/images, today’s forum is now several GigaBytes in size and needs a bit of heavy pruning to keep it lean and manageable. I am thus planning to prune several years of threads between 2001/2 and 2007/8 ish, albeit only from a handful of the busier forums like ‘General Discussion’.
After that I’ll also need to rebuild profiles and forums, which will take a while, even when doing it via CLI (command line). I plan to do this gradually in phases, whenever I get the chance, over the next month or so - this way there shouldn't be much disruption, if any. The catch is that the database needs to be kept in sync, so eventually some members may see their total post count reduce as ancient content is removed and forum indexes rebuilt.
Anyway, that’s the tentative plan and I thought members might like to know about it, just in case you wondered why some totals for posts/thread counts etc. had changed.
Between ancient threads and related attachment files/images, today’s forum is now several GigaBytes in size and needs a bit of heavy pruning to keep it lean and manageable. I am thus planning to prune several years of threads between 2001/2 and 2007/8 ish, albeit only from a handful of the busier forums like ‘General Discussion’.
After that I’ll also need to rebuild profiles and forums, which will take a while, even when doing it via CLI (command line). I plan to do this gradually in phases, whenever I get the chance, over the next month or so - this way there shouldn't be much disruption, if any. The catch is that the database needs to be kept in sync, so eventually some members may see their total post count reduce as ancient content is removed and forum indexes rebuilt.
Anyway, that’s the tentative plan and I thought members might like to know about it, just in case you wondered why some totals for posts/thread counts etc. had changed.























