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[no_worries]

Thanks a ton Erwin! I know I would go nuts if I had to spend the 14 hours it took to get it fixed!

 

[MQTA]

Wow. The cost of success, huh? CF has pushed vbulletin to the limits, eh?

 

[Ave Maria]

Wow! I'd say that deleting posts that haven't been replied to in over a year would probably be a good idea! Thanks Erwin!

 

[BradC314]

Erwin: I'm not sure if you've heard of him or not, but you might want to talk to Dave Bott over at tivocommunity.com. He runs a huge vBulletin community, and has been down this road before. He might be of some use to you, if you're looking for that sort of thing.

For comparison, tivocommunity's vBulletin stats:

Threads: 194,431 Posts: 2,232,829
Registered Members: 71,202

 

[crossrunner]

Thanks Erwin for all of your hard work. This is such a fantastic ministry and God will surely bless you for all you have done.

cr

 

[Nancaroo]

Thank you Erwin. Great job

 

[SandyLou]

would it help free up things to delete member names & profiles who have not been active in . . . say, 2 years? And threads that have not been accessed in 6 months or a year?

 

[skysthelimit]

I have to agree with sandy and her idea. 6 months seem good because nobody's going to post in something that old, and deleting profile info and stuff from inactive accounts will help as well. I run a message board and anyone that hasn't made ONE post in a year I delete, so I free up a lot of the clutter. Just some suggestions Erwin.

And of course, great job fixing the forums!

 

[joyshirley]

for all your hard work. And many thanks to your wife too, for her help and patience when you have to spend hours on keeping CF going along smoothly.

I agree with the above posters re removing members inactive for a year, and also threads that have been ignored for, say, 6 months. An announcement that the thread's being deleted in a week, as someone else suggested, would be helpful too.

Thanks again, Erwin. I just applaud your capabilities in keeping CF going the way you do. God bless you and your wife.

 

[G4m]

1 month old? That's a bit harsh.

I'm thinking of making it so that the site deletes any threads that have not had a post for 1 year. That would remove all the older redundant threads and keep the ones that are active.

Or you could have a separate database that is an archive, where the 1 year+ posts are archived to.

 

[Erwin]

The users are not the problem - that's a relatively small table in the database.

It's the posts. Archiving them will not work since they will still take up room.

I'm going to see how we go over the next 2 days... we are reaching the file system maximum size for older versions of Linux - I use the latest version, so that shouldn't be an issue... but it could be related.

 

[Jacob4Jesus]

All I can say is, if everyone put as much dedication into their lives and work as you do with Christian Forums, we'd be living in a Utopia. Three cheers for Erwin... Hip Hip Hooray!

 

[Risen Tree]

Is there any way to put the oldest posts in some sort of archive so they can still be accessed? Like, make the oldest threads readable as text files or something? That might be a lot of trouble, but having to delete posts would stink.

Thanks for all your hard work, dude. (And your wife too since I think you mentioned she helped you on this.)

This is a good idea. Erwin, you think you could do automate this process?

 

[The Smiling One]

If you want to save the old posts in an archive, could you put them in a separate web site of their own, then have a link to the site somewhere here?????????

 

[Katty]

Yah, I was wondering if there's any way to access old posts from like last year. I was looking for some of my old ones and didn't know if there's an actual way to get to the archives at all....

BTW--- Erwin, much thanks You do an awesome job.

~Katty

 

[freespirit2001]

I'm glad things are back and up and running on Christian Forums again!!!
Hopes and prayers and HUGS for ERWIN!!!!that he can get some rest about all this...




I have a later suggestion...Just a suggestion. Before any strategies for deleting year old posts and threads becomes a plan, maybe SOMEONE might consider having a post published of ours here. Its called FAVORITE QUOTES in the Friendship Forum started by tulc. The quotes on this forum are some of the best I've ever read in my life. I've seen books on favorite quotes in bookstores, but if someone---anyone???...If anyone could envision having that post called "FAVORITE QUOTES" published for Christian Forums.....There are some of the best christian quotes I've ever heard in my life compiled in that thread...PLEASE...I KNOW I WILL DOWNLOAD THAT POST...
BUT IFANYONE HAS THE ACCESS OR CAPABILITIES OF HAVING A BOOK PUBLISHED OF SOME OF OUR WORK ON THAT QUOTE FORUM....
XOXLOL!!! I know it may not sound like the time to mention it....but I would PAY for a book published by and for Christian Forums....especially one that was members started...and about quotes about christian wisdom and favorite christian quotes....????

Affectionately in Christ!

 

[freak_of_today]

Many thanks, Erwin!!!

The time and effort and money you put into this site is just incredible.

BTW, getting rid of posts 1yr old sounds like the way to go.

 

[xenia]

God bless you Erwin! You're the best!

 

[no_worries]

hmm.. I think that deleting posts that are over a year old might be a good way to save some space, but it might be nice to save them if there was a way.. would saving them as text only (like no tags) help any? or removing them from the normal CF search and forums?

 

[Radagast]

You could vary the expiry date with different subforums -- for some of the smaller theology subforums people might want to look back quite some time, while for the "chattier" subforums going back a long way might not be necessary.

-- Radagast