About thread sizes - O/T
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 11/20/2020, 3:48 pm
This is just thread 2. Here was the first one with 125 replies (posts from February 29th - March 29th):
https://canetalk.com/2020/02/1582963243.shtml

I currently automatically lock it at a certain point because it gets to be too many replies for people to look through to see where new posts are. I also do it for performance reasons. The most recent approximately 1,500 posts in the forum are stored in two ways, in a single index file and through created HTML pages. After that time, they are simply stored as archived HTML pages. Once archived, posts can't be replied to any longer and the counter is frozen.

You can click "Browse Archive" on the front page to browse all the old posts:
https://canetalk.com/archive/

Or search the posts through Google:
https://canetalk.com/search/

You can also search the most recent posts on that page. I wasn't sure how long it would take Google to index messages so that they could be searched so I have the most recent ones stored in a real time index so that they can be search easily here. (that way people can find recent information that they may have forgot where it was, but remember some keywords that can help them get back to it) Occasionally the oldest posts in the index, beyond around 1,500 posts (main threads and replies), are automatically archived. When that process happens a lot of various things happen at once and I didn't want too much to happen at once. If for some reason the process was interrupted while archiving a big thread I might have to come in and do it manually which would be challenging.

For hurricanes we never get to this many posts because I like to start new threads with the title containing the latest information. Or at least for more significant storms. For other storms I might just reply to an existing post.

I did have the reply limit at 125, but I am changing it to be lower again. Making it 75 for now, maybe even lower in the future. It used to be a lot less because we usually never got to this number of replies anyway, but I expanded it for the original coronavirus thread so all the information could be in one thread. But it might still be better to have less replies allowed so that later information doesn't get as easily mixed in with older information.
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