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philzilla · Sep 11, 2003, 01:16 PM

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shouldn't we be archiving again, soon?

oh, if you happen to lose all those zimphool/canadian flirtathons whilst archiving, we'll all be so upset

Zimphire · Sep 11, 2003, 03:36 PM

Yeah and if you lose all the posts were phizilla went off on drunken rampages it wouldn't be bad.

philzilla · Sep 11, 2003, 06:15 PM

Zimphire · Sep 11, 2003, 06:55 PM

Actually the Lounge wouldn't be the same without your posts.

And that was said totally in a non kiss butt sort of way.

Apple Pro Underwear · Sep 11, 2003, 07:44 PM

HORNY GIRLS WON'T STOP WANTING ME!!!!

oops wrong thread

philzilla · Sep 11, 2003, 07:55 PM

Apple Pro Underwear = Horny Girl

he sell long time, ten dorra!

Apple Pro Underwear · Sep 11, 2003, 08:16 PM

gorgonzola · Sep 14, 2003, 04:24 PM

I dunno. We used to do archives back when we were on UBB because the forums used to explode when a single forum got too huge...things would start corrupting and whatnot. Now all the posts for the entire BB are in one SQL table so it doesn't really matter which forum the posts are in.

I was actually considering the opposite: getting rid of the Archives section and merging those two back into the current forums. Thoughts?

Gene Jockey · Sep 14, 2003, 06:11 PM

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
I was actually considering the opposite: getting rid of the Archives section and merging those two back into the current forums. Thoughts?

As long as search times aren't impacted, it sounds good to me.

Plus, then we can resurrect really old threads!

--Josh

voodoo · Sep 15, 2003, 04:55 AM

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
I dunno. We used to do archives back when we were on UBB because the forums used to explode when a single forum got too huge...things would start corrupting and whatnot. Now all the posts for the entire BB are in one SQL table so it doesn't really matter which forum the posts are in.

I was actually considering the opposite: getting rid of the Archives section and merging those two back into the current forums. Thoughts?

Well sure - but does anyone miss being able to post in an archived thread?

I don't.

Timo · Sep 17, 2003, 11:59 AM

Originally posted by gorgonzola:
I was actually considering the opposite: getting rid of the Archives section and merging those two back into the current forums. Thoughts?

If it's not a bother, why not?

gorgonzola · Sep 18, 2003, 07:35 PM

Originally posted by voodoo:
Well sure - but does anyone miss being able to post in an archived thread?

I don't.

It's not to let people post in those threads. It's just to simplify the forum layout. This way we get rid of the whole Our Archives section. We have a lot of forums and anything seemingly unnecessary might as well go.

Good point about the search times though. I doubt it would make a difference (since again, all the posts for all the forums are in one table anyway), but I'll check that.