No more page splitting for long threads

LIFE · #1 by **LIFE** » May 17, 2010 7:42 pm

Title says it all.

Please don't report threads when they reach a certain amount of posts (e.g. 1000) anymore :dopey:

I will also re-merge the splits based on thread length that have been done so far.

Thank you :cheers:

Bernhard

Aern Rakesh · #2 by **Aern Rakesh** » May 17, 2010 7:47 pm

LIFE wrote:Title says it all.

Please don't report threads when they reach a certain amount of posts (e.g. 1000) anymore

I will also re-merge the splits based on thread length that have been done so far.

Thank you
Bernhard

I'm curious as to why? There are some threads, e.g. entwined haiku, old farts and pictures of thee, that are going to get very, very long...

Not complaining one way or the other, it has just been the other way for as long as I've been a member of the group.

LIFE · #3 by **LIFE** » May 17, 2010 7:58 pm

Nora_Leonard wrote:I'm curious as to why? There are some threads, e.g. entwined haiku, old farts and pictures of thee, that are going to get very, very long...

Not complaining one way or the other, it has just been the other way for as long as I've been a member of the group.

I don't see a reason why we should split threads based on their length at all? :scratch:

It just confuses...

Gallstones · #4 by **Gallstones** » May 17, 2010 8:25 pm

Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

LIFE · #5 by **LIFE** » May 17, 2010 8:44 pm

Gallstones wrote:Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

Well there's a "search this topic" search function

HughMcB · #6 by **HughMcB** » May 17, 2010 9:03 pm

Gallstones wrote:Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

Trying to find a post in multiple mammoth thread probably won't make it any less of a mammoth task. :grin:

Aern Rakesh · #7 by **Aern Rakesh** » May 18, 2010 6:45 am

LIFE wrote:
Gallstones wrote:Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

Well there's a "search this topic" search function

I guess none of us are used to the search function actually working! :lol:

MrFungus420 · #8 by **MrFungus420** » May 18, 2010 11:06 am

Gallstones wrote:Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

As opposed to searching through a half-dozen different threads?

Gawdzilla · #9 by **Gawdzilla** » May 18, 2010 11:12 am

MrFungus420 wrote:
Gallstones wrote:Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

As opposed to searching through a half-dozen different threads?

It helps that we can count on certain words being consistently mispelled.

Calilasseia · **#10** by **Calilasseia** » May 18, 2010 10:32 pm

The reason why thread splitting was implemented over at RDF was because the database structure, and the construction of indexes on that structure, scaled upwards poorly once the database grew beyond a certain size. If LIFE has figured out what the underlying problem is, and his fix allows threads of arbitrary length without the search function taking enormous amounts of time, or bringing the server's processor to its knees, then the need for this procedure ceases to be. Now I happen not to be aware personally of any fixes that have been made facilitating this, but if our server admin is confident that this problem has been overcome, then I'm not going to argue. Not least because we have a server admin who, unlike a certain personage I and many others here could name, knows what he's doing.

Tangerine Dream · **#11** by **Tangerine Dream** » May 19, 2010 1:42 am

Gallstones wrote:Trying to find a post in one of those mammoth threads is going to be a mammoth task.

Gawdzilla · **#12** by **Gawdzilla** » May 19, 2010 1:44 am

There's a thread over at JREF that has 12,974 replies. vBulletin rocks!

LIFE · **#13** by **LIFE** » May 19, 2010 1:56 am

Gawdzilla wrote:There's a thread over at JREF that has 12,974 replies. vBulletin rocks!

I don't like vBulletin, I've used it a couple of times.

This thread has over 21000 replies and it's this board software, so your point again was...?

Tangerine Dream · **#14** by **Tangerine Dream** » May 19, 2010 3:12 am

LIFE wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:There's a thread over at JREF that has 12,974 replies. vBulletin rocks!

I don't like vBulletin, I've used it a couple of times.

This thread has over 21000 replies and it's this board software, so your point again was...?

A very pleasant thread ! I wish I could speak Russian :whine:

iamthereforeithink · **#15** by **iamthereforeithink** » May 19, 2010 3:33 am

LIFE wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:There's a thread over at JREF that has 12,974 replies. vBulletin rocks!

I don't like vBulletin, I've used it a couple of times.

This thread has over 21000 replies and it's this board software, so your point again was...?

Ah... The Russians. They do everything on a grand scale. Their machinery and equipment typically have a 10X safety factor (for example a 10,000 ton capacity for a machine required to lift a maximum of 1000 tons)

Brian · **#16** by **Brian** » May 19, 2010 5:52 am

I used to "work" for phpBB during the days when it was 2.x.x (support, moderator and style teams on their forums). The 2.x.x software wasn't nearly as good as vB, but the phpBB 3.x line is by far my favorite forum software. (/bias)

In regards to the topic, I much prefer keeping the threads together, so cheers! :mrgreen:

DanDare · **#17** by **DanDare** » Jun 05, 2010 10:08 am

I think the problem with system behaviour over at RDF was facilitated by those who shall not be named, rather than repaired.

Mycernius · **#18** by **Mycernius** » Jun 05, 2010 12:15 pm

I know a thread over at Jref (Not the James Randi one, but a Japnese reference site) that has almost 21 000 replies.

Jain · **#19** by **Jain** » Jun 09, 2010 8:28 am

great! I didnt realise this. It makes our gergeous mods jobs a little easier

Imagination Theory · **#20** by **Imagination Theory** » Jul 02, 2010 9:27 am

LIFE wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:There's a thread over at JREF that has 12,974 replies. vBulletin rocks!

I don't like vBulletin, I've used it a couple of times.

This thread has over 21000 replies and it's this board software, so your point again was...?

Oh, did you see all the pictures of those pretty girls? :grin:

Я мечтаю встретить девушку, с которой я мог бы прожить всю жизнь :rofl2:

Just joking!

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