72 Pages

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:24 am

Is the max amount of pages allowed in one thread. One of the little annoyances of this forum host. It's been suggested many time to their support forum to have it fixed. But shortly after a thread hits 72 pages the topic will auto split itself into a new thread. Just a heads up since some of the asylum topics are getting close.

by Roy Blue Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:44 am

So that's what happened to the Counting to 50 thread. I was wondering about that.

by Zwei Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:52 am

Good to know. I'm sure those counting threads will get there fairly quick.

by - The Rose - Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:59 am

well that's a really stupid feature.

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:04 am

It seems more like a bug on their part they just haven't addressed. It's not a huge deal though, we're only here temporarily.

by JAMSM Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:27 am

Bleh.
If the site knows to make a new thread when it hits 72, it's probably a feature rather than a bug. probably some sort of server-side application to keep their entire site running faster. the sooner it can put old threads into the ground, the less active memory needed on their part.

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:35 am

JAMSM wrote:Bleh.
If the site knows to make a new thread when it hits 72, it's probably a feature rather than a bug. probably some sort of server-side application to keep their entire site running faster. the sooner it can put old threads into the ground, the less active memory needed on their part.

That doesn't imply its a feature though considering there was focus brought to eventually identifying the problem. Bugs can also preform undesired outcomes like that, all it's doing is splitting the last post. These threads end up piling up anyways since there's no timer for pruning.

Edit: Hell, it could be a feature and it was being addressed improperly. Just doesn't make sense considering its the same amount of data regardless of how the thread is split up. If its popular enough to run for 72 pages you're likely going to want to keep the original around after they split.

by JAMSM Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:44 am

Sporadic wrote:
JAMSM wrote:Bleh.
If the site knows to make a new thread when it hits 72, it's probably a feature rather than a bug. probably some sort of server-side application to keep their entire site running faster. the sooner it can put old threads into the ground, the less active memory needed on their part.

That doesn't imply its a feature though considering there was focus brought to eventually identifying the problem. Bugs can also preform undesired outcomes like that, all it's doing is splitting the last post. These threads end up piling up anyways since there's no timer for pruning.

Bleh.
Whether or not there's a timer for pruning only effects how much data is on the servers, while the active memory has to take and render the entire thread a new post is added to, so it's a sacrifice of slightly more stored data in return for less active data usage.

Now I'll admit it may well be a bug, however, even if it's a bug, they wouldn't fix it anyway, too much work for such a minimal change, not to mention that fixing it may even be detrimental, however, this is all of no consequence, because, as you said,

Sporadic wrote:
we're only here temporarily.

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:52 am

You're talking about such a minimal amount of memory though. It just doesn't seem practical enough for this bug/feature to be intentional.

by JAMSM Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:56 am

Bleh.
Is it minimal? How many forums does this place host?
It may be minimal to our forum, however, in the grand scheme, it may turn out to be so much more.

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:02 am

Not sure. But considering how highly rated they are in surveys and consumer reports it's only normal to assume they have enough servers to host forums which facilitate those type of demands.

by JAMSM Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:06 am

Bleh.
That's true, but then again, most companies want to turn as much of a profit as they can, if we assume it's a feature, then it may be so they can optimize their servers and run something else alongside the forum hosting service, what, I dunno, probably some adsense revenue farm or something.

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:07 am

Could be.

by JAMSM Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:11 am

Bleh.
I'm just proposing ideas it's probably just a glitch anyway.
Best stop wondering about it anyway, if there really is something somewhat shady like an adsense farm, I dun think they'd be happy about us thinking about it. so, I say we leave well enough alone.

by Bato Wed Feb 06, 2013 1:14 pm

Such stupid bug this is Very Happy

On Spors forum were on our 6th anime thread by now cuz of this

by DubAnimeLover Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:46 pm

Temporarily.

How much longer then?

by JAMSM Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:22 pm

Yeah, I'll go with bug, an intentional feature wouldn't cut it to a number like 990 posts.

by **Sporadic** Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:35 pm

DubAnimeLover wrote:Temporarily.

How much longer then?

We'll disclose that when we feel like we've reached that point. I'm sure you can be patient. Rolling Eyes

by Tsuyushi Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:39 pm

Just seems like a really random number to cut it off.

by Nyako~Mayushii Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:12 pm

KETtAKU DESU YO~!

It's a conspiracy!

by DemonEyesJoe Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:57 pm

2 Just dubs pages on this thread, 2 just dub pages....

by johnstang2 Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:15 pm

Sporadic wrote:Is the max amount of pages allowed in one thread. One of the little annoyances of this forum host. It's been suggested many time to their support forum to have it fixed. But shortly after a thread hits 72 pages the topic will auto split itself into a new thread. Just a heads up since some of the asylum topics are getting close.

Roy Blue wrote:So that's what happened to the Counting to 50 thread. I was wondering about that.

That is what I thought happened. Getting close huh. It already happened to the asylum. We are already on our 3rd count to 50 thread because of this.

by **Severus** Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:35 pm

full list:

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Portal Modules: 119 modules in addition of the available ones (News, Recent_topic, Search, Poll, Who is online, Statistics)

Topic icons: 25 in addition to the default ones (Normal-Sticky-Anouncement)

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Groups: 32 groups

Ranks: 225 ranks

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Characters in "Site Description": 255 characters

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Characters in Signatures: 1,000 characters

Characters in Profile labels: 50 characters

HTML Pages: 500 pages

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by DemonEyesJoe Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:39 am

need some Gmod console commands to fix it, set NPCs to 10000000000!!!

by **Sporadic** Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:54 am

Severus wrote:full list:

Messages in a subject: 990 messages (once the limit reached, the subject is locked and splitted)

Categories/Forums/Sub-forums: 255

Avatar Gallery: 30 avatars

Smilies: 150 (Including the 94 smilies by default)

Portal Modules: 119 modules in addition of the available ones (News, Recent_topic, Search, Poll, Who is online, Statistics)

Topic icons: 25 in addition to the default ones (Normal-Sticky-Anouncement)

Characters in the messages: 65,000 characters (Including spaces)

Characters in the description of a category: 255 characters

Characters in the title of a topic: 255 characters

Groups: 32 groups

Ranks: 225 ranks

Characters in "Site Name": 96 characters

Characters in "Site Description": 255 characters

Characters in Forum address: 20 characters

Characters in personnalized Topic icons: 15 characters

Characters in Signatures: 1,000 characters

Characters in Profile labels: 50 characters

HTML Pages: 500 pages

Characters in HTML pages: 65,000 characters

Aside from the character limits in messages and sigs regular forum members gain no benefit from knowing this stuff.

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