Why are some threads that become very long (say 100+ pages) locked, only to open a new thread as a continuation? Why not just keep the original thread open?
For example the "rookie watch" thread on the general forum? It's on part two now. I assume at some point it will get locked and a part 3 will be created.
I'm not against it, just want to know the reasoning behind it as I find it strange.
I don't believe the performance of the forum should be affected by long threads. Since we still view the thread one page at a time. A new thread takes up just as much resources in the database as just continuing the old one (actually a little more cause now you have to keep track of a new thread, but the increase is negligible).
Just curious
Question about really long threads (100+ pages)
Question about really long threads (100+ pages)
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from what I've learned threads that extend the 100 page mark take too much bandwith...
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the_incredible_basti wrote:from what I've learned threads that extend the 100 page mark take too much bandwith...
Correct...
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what the_incredible_basti said is correct. the more the size of the thread, the more bandwith the server needs to pull up the previous pages/data, and the slower the rgm servers become.
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The Amare threads on the Bulls board would have reached nearly 800 pages (12000 posts!). It's a good thing there are limits to the number pages.
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