RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.
09-29-2013, 05:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2013, 05:35 AM by BRPXQZME.)
(09-29-2013, 04:56 AM)Wheat Wrote: »It was actually that the forum software that the other place had before it switched to vBulletin had (I believe it was either MyBB or phpBB or some other software that has BB in it) had problems after 100 pages. Then they switched it to vBulletin to get rid of hiccups like that. They kept the 100 page rule out of tradition and so "things wouldn't get too daunting for new people."They’ve cited that reason every once in a while afterwards, though—they still experienced lots of slowdown just before the Upgrade From Hell I could tell when the comic updated just from the lags and overload messages, not even kidding. It was nothing quite like the outright sputtering to a halt problems of auld, I’m sure. (And judging from the crustiest links that can be found, I’m also pretty sure it was phpBB: The Solution of 2002, Today™.)
I make my statements about vB based on vB; there is some vB4 support suggesting one should avoid letting threads get too long for performance reasons, though their idea of when to do that is more like 200–400 pages.
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