Gray on 15/12/2002 at 06:25
How exactly is the archive section working? Are threads continuously moved there after not being bumped for a certain period of time, or were just all the old threads moved to the archives at a certain point in time (and hence the archives now being completely static)?
mopgoblin on 15/12/2002 at 06:31
I am fairly sure the archiving was a one-off event. If I recall correctly, all threads that had been inactive since Jan 2001 were archived in mid-2001 (only for the larger forums, of course). There has been no archiving since.
Gingerbread Man on 15/12/2002 at 06:33
They're currently static, yeah. Probably could do with a new dump in a while, particularly in the high-traffic forums of CommChat and ThiefGen. Maybe ShockGen too, I dunno.
It's not an ongoing or automated thing, though, if that's what you're asking. Threads older than X don't get archived by the software, it's something we have to instigate.
MsLedd on 15/12/2002 at 06:35
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Originally posted by Gray were just all the old threads moved to the archives at a certain point in time (and hence the archives now being completely static)? Yes. This was done out of necessity when we were using UBB, the huge size of some of our forums were causing searches to literally cripple the server. We haven't had such a staggering need like this since, so that's why no more archiving has taken place (with the exception of moving closed forums to the archive section, ie: Everquest). :)
Gray on 15/12/2002 at 06:36
Alrighty then. Thanks for the speedy replies :)
MsLedd on 15/12/2002 at 09:37
Yes thank you we are aware of them and they were not listed for a reason. :)
