The Great Pruning of '05.
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:59 pm
Well, it had to happen sooner or later.
We've decided to do a bit of cleaning up around here. The forums are growing quickly, and beginning to become unmanagable. When I download a backup, it is nearly 200 megs. I've restored from backups a few times on my local machine just playing around. The last backup I restored from took me about 5 hours. Keep in mind that this is on a local machine, and not restoring to a remote server. I shudder to think how long that would take, or if it is even possible.
We've decided to create a new forum. I'll call it "The AGDI Archive". It will be read-only, meaning now new posts or replys can be made there. This forum will contain historically important threads that we don't want deleted. Each thread will be moved to the archive on a case-by-case basis. This is your chance to give us some feedback on what threads you feel are historically important.
Some examples might include:
A regular's first post
Threads that have had actual meaningful conversation and have gone on past a few pages
Threads that contain valuable information that might be important to others
These are just a few examples of the type of things we are looking for. Like I said earlier, each thread will be moved into the archive on a case-by-case basis.
What I'm going to try to do is remove any thread that has not been replied to within the last year. We are going to start with the Off Topic, Poll, and Game Making forums. We are also going to clean up all the locked topics in the KQ1VGA and KQ2VGA forums (where people have asked the same question in more than one thread).
To prevent a thread that you feel is important from being deleted, reply here with the URL of the thread. We'll take a look at it, and if we agree, the thread will be placed in the archive.
By the way, this would also be a good time to clean up your Private Message folders of any messages you no longer need.
I plan on giving everyone a week or two to get their feedback in. Hurry and get your threads listed before the deadline is up!
We've decided to do a bit of cleaning up around here. The forums are growing quickly, and beginning to become unmanagable. When I download a backup, it is nearly 200 megs. I've restored from backups a few times on my local machine just playing around. The last backup I restored from took me about 5 hours. Keep in mind that this is on a local machine, and not restoring to a remote server. I shudder to think how long that would take, or if it is even possible.
We've decided to create a new forum. I'll call it "The AGDI Archive". It will be read-only, meaning now new posts or replys can be made there. This forum will contain historically important threads that we don't want deleted. Each thread will be moved to the archive on a case-by-case basis. This is your chance to give us some feedback on what threads you feel are historically important.
Some examples might include:
A regular's first post
Threads that have had actual meaningful conversation and have gone on past a few pages
Threads that contain valuable information that might be important to others
These are just a few examples of the type of things we are looking for. Like I said earlier, each thread will be moved into the archive on a case-by-case basis.
What I'm going to try to do is remove any thread that has not been replied to within the last year. We are going to start with the Off Topic, Poll, and Game Making forums. We are also going to clean up all the locked topics in the KQ1VGA and KQ2VGA forums (where people have asked the same question in more than one thread).
To prevent a thread that you feel is important from being deleted, reply here with the URL of the thread. We'll take a look at it, and if we agree, the thread will be placed in the archive.
By the way, this would also be a good time to clean up your Private Message folders of any messages you no longer need.
I plan on giving everyone a week or two to get their feedback in. Hurry and get your threads listed before the deadline is up!