Hatrack River Forum: 900000 Posts

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Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :

Pretty impressive, eh?

Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :

Pft, wake me up at 1,000,000.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Count again. You've only got 588 posts.

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

900thousand+posts.

Posted by RunningBear (Member # 8477) on :

not me, the forum.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

That number keeps going up and down. Old threads are periodically deleted.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

I just assumed that RunningBear was talking about Tom. Or rivka.

Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :

I wonder how much disk space the forum database takes up.

Do threads just get deleted when they end up at the bottom of the last page?

I guess I should go save some for posterity...

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Noemon:
I just assumed that RunningBear was talking about Tom. Or rivka.

Hey! I'm not second! I'm not even close!

And I can stop any time I want.

*twitch*

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Crap. I have more than half of Rivka's posts. I need to slow down.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

[Razz]

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

quote:
Do threads just get deleted when they end up at the bottom of the last page?

No, from what I understand the last big delete was in 2003(possibly August, going from memory). The number of pages on the forum has grown since I registered in April of 04 has grown quite a bit but i forget what it was about then since I keep my settings only showing the last week. I am not sure how far back the deletes went since we still have some threads from before then, but not many. So save what you would like but we probably are ok.

Someone once said that the forum ran faster and searches worked better after that purge.

Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :

The initial expectation post-purge (if I recall correctly) was to purge routinely, something like if a thread hadn't been updated in the last 6 months. But that never really was implemented. I think some people are happy that it wasn't, actually.

As for me, that was when I started to feel okay about deleting my posts. Planned deletion marked a real change in the feel of the forum for me -- from a static record to an more ephemeral conversation.

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

For what it's worth, Sara, I'm not a huge fan of your deletions. [Wink]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

And he's not the only one.

(note lack of winkie)