[Chris]

Sometime in the next couple of weeks I will probably delete threads older than, say 4 months. This is to improve performance and free up some storage space.<br><br>Just to give you all some advance notice.<br>

[Ionic_Storm]

Aww, that's a shame, because we then can't look back on nice threads that we happen to see on page 60+.<br><br>Could I make a suggestion though, and move some like classic topics into a seperate forum, and close them, so that people can look back on them?<br><br>But yeah.. I understand your move... when I had a board I didn't have the search feature because Bandwidth was a real struggle with me

[Eddie]

Chris, "emails sent to chirs" is older than four months but you can't delete that surely???

[Uglybob]

oh god i hope so

[Charmaine]

You know I havent actually seen that for a very long time!

[Eddie]

actually, you might be right Bob. Yeah lets get rid of it!!!!<br><br>Eddie.

[Ionic_Storm]

If it wasn't for that thread.. erm... *mumbles* goehfjkd;oduwieueiuwemsadwa. So, you cannot delete it..  ;D I thank you.

[Chris]

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. Threads that have been untouched for over x months.

[Kretin]

sounds a good idea. No point clogging up space with old topics

[Guest]

Aw well say good bye to those fond memories but it's for the best.  :(

[Matt]

Why not update the board to use a database instead of creating thousands of pages of html?<br><br>Just an idea...<br><br>M

[Everlast]

Matt when r u updating your site?<br>

[Everlast]

It was your website that got me here<br>

[Ionic_Storm]

Why is it bad for the server?

[Matt]

In reply to Everlast:<br><br>I don't know when I'll get round to updating it, if ever. I don't have the time to compete with MW...I'm thinking what to do with it at the moment. All my time is being taken up with work, and http://www.gresleyrovers.com.<br><br>In reply to Chris:<br><br>I guess a board with this kind of traffic a MySQL db could slow the server some what, but with only 23K messsages it shouldn't slow it by any noticable amount. I have a table with just under 100K records and that only takes about a second to query...?<br><br>M

[a_girl_from_mars]

Can you not do what Matin suggested and move the old topics to a different part of the site so we can still read them?