solace Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 As our membership continues to grow, and the number of posts as well, the larger the database for the forum grows. I'd like to propose an archive forum, which would be read only, and any contain any posts older than say 3-6 months or so. that way the current forum would have a relatively "small" database, and would make the board much more responsive. now what i'm asking you all is, what type of timeframe would you like to see the archive vs. current forum have? i'll suggest my proposal, which is that the current forum is any post from the last 3 months, the archive would be anything from 3 months back or further. if this doesn't seem like long enough, how long? 6 months? i honestly don't want to go back any further than that on the current forum/database, otherwise it won't have much of an effect. do people ever dig up many threads older than 3 months? this proposal/idea is in the very early stages, as there is not a very easy way to archive from a certain point, and then prune off the rest, yet, so i'm looking into our options Quote Link to post Share on other sites
greg Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 i dont think i have ever felt the need to go back more than a week or two, but thats just me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 3 months is beautiful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skyflynn Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 Yeah, I'm with Greg. A week or two is sufficient for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted January 19, 2005 Author Share Posted January 19, 2005 hmm... i'll try and watch the board over the next few weeks, and see how old the longest of threads stay active. if i could do 1-2 months, that would be wonderful, and make for a much speedier forum Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 I rarely read anything that isn't on the first page. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 It's important to keep stuff though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
deepseacatfish Posted January 20, 2005 Share Posted January 20, 2005 Personally I think that a month or two would be plenty of time. If you really want to go back to it then, the archive would have all the info from the old posts there right? you just wouldn't be able to add new posts onto it. or am I crazy? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted January 20, 2005 Author Share Posted January 20, 2005 Personally I think that a month or two would be plenty of time. If you really want to go back to it then, the archive would have all the info from the old posts there right? you just wouldn't be able to add new posts onto it. or am I crazy? that is exactly what i'm envisioning Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mrs. Peel Posted January 21, 2005 Share Posted January 21, 2005 Mark me down for 1 or 2 months as well. As long as we can still read the old threads I don't think there would be much call to respond to them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I'd like it set to 6 months, Kyle.....I often look up old stuff, like photos when I want to make cover art. Pretty please? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brianjeremy Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I rarely read anything that isn't on the first page. Me too. I say a month or so would be good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 I'd like it set to 6 months, Kyle.....I often look up old stuff, like photos when I want to make cover art.Pretty please? no, that's just it, you will be able to look up ANY post, no matter if it's years back, or not. just it will be on a seperate archive forum, that you cannot post new posts to. this current forum will be the only one that will only have say the last 1-3 months of posts Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WildMercurySound Posted January 26, 2005 Share Posted January 26, 2005 I'm in the 2 weeks to a month crew...this place moves so fast I rarely read anything very old at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted January 26, 2005 Author Share Posted January 26, 2005 hoping to figure out an easy way to do this here pretty soon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woman at the bar Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 1-2 months is good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted February 2, 2005 Share Posted February 2, 2005 1-2 months is good ease up, yo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kicking_Television Posted February 5, 2005 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Yea, there's been a few times i've went and looked back, i think 2 months would be perfect for this sorta thing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted February 5, 2005 Author Share Posted February 5, 2005 Yea, there's been a few times i've went and looked back, i think 2 months would be perfect for this sorta thinghttp://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?act=announce&f=7&id=9 currently this forum is at 30 days, i'll see how that runs for a while, and if people would like me to keep it at 60 days, i can start that the next cycle Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WildMercurySound Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 you know if you look a thread up in the archive, can you 'bring it back' by posting in it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted February 9, 2005 Author Share Posted February 9, 2005 it's an entirely different database, so no, what's in the archive is archived for good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 k. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
woman at the bar Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 so what is the time frame on this archiving? TTL only goes back 5 pages. And less than 10 days. Hmph. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hodie Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 That reminds me of an archiving thought I had: if we really want the World Locator thingie to be used, we probably should leave that unarchived. Though it occurs to me that we might be trying to phase it out? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
solace Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 yeah, i thought about that after i archived that one, along w/ a few others :-/ i actually stopped archiving any of the forums minus the Wilco one, non-wilco, and TTL now tho Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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