Hi there,

I am looking for users who are a member on this web site and have a forum with more then 250.000 posts.

Please post here or give me a private msg.

Thanks!

I have one nearing 1 million
http://visualbasicforum.com
and one private forum, not using vbulletin however, that has over a million. Can't give you a url to it because an NDA has to be signed to obtain access.

Yeah I know your forum, yesterday I thought 'he almost has 1m posts again!'. :)

Threads: 37,637, Posts: 898,331

We would have 4x that but we prune.

One of our largest (and argueably most worthless) threads (http://www.shinraonline.com/board/showthread.php?t=123325) has 72,752 replies.

Why do you (people with large boards) prune so much?

Threads: 37,637, Posts: 898,331

We would have 4x that but we prune.

One of our largest (and argueably most worthless) threads (http://www.shinraonline.com/board/showthread.php?t=123325) has 72,752 replies.
I've signed up and filled in all the required info, when I go to my options or profile and fill in my details in all fields and press submit I get the error that I did not fill in all the required fields (images between posts) but that isn't even showing. So I can't setup my profile?

Also, when I click on [add link] icon from the wysiwyg editor in the signature creation page it says javascript error, so I can't use the toolbar.

Pressing save doesn't do anything either, it loads the usercp again and when I click on edit signature again it hasn't saved the signature.

Very confusing, and not really motivating - but love your web site :)

Ah, took me some playing around, but I figured out the signature thing and noticed that 0 (even though its mentioned !!) isn't a valid value.

my forums hit 25,000 today, big enough amount of posts for me.


Why do you (people with large boards) prune so much?
large database = slow loading times... removing posts shrinks the database :)

Yeah I know your forum, yesterday I thought 'he almost has 1m posts again!'. :)
This will be the second time. We had about 1.3M when we used wwwthreads and just before I was ready to do the final import the hard drive on the server crashed. The backup that I was able to pull off the dead disk was old so we lost almost half the members and half the posts. As we neared it again I had to move servers and because of the huge amount of source code attachments I had to prune all posts older than 3 years to shorten the upload time to the new server. I sacrificed the posts to keep attachments.
So you weren't imagining things.

This will be the second time. We had about 1.3M when we used wwwthreads and just before I was ready to do the final import the hard drive on the server crashed. The backup that I was able to pull off the dead disk was old so we lost almost half the members and half the posts. As we neared it again I had to move servers and because of the huge amount of source code attachments I had to prune all posts older than 3 years to shorten the upload time to the new server. I sacrificed the posts to keep attachments.
So you weren't imagining things.
Nice! Thank you for the explanation. I don't know VB code that much, but your site has enough good content to keep me happy browsing and reading. My quality posts (rather lack off) just doesn't fit there I feel, which is why I am not posting. I hope you don't mind.

Don't mind at all. If you have a question, no matter how simple you might think it is, ask away. We are very newbie friendly. Many of our experts and gurus were newbies once and by asking when they ran into a problem they gained knowledge.

We had to prune because it was causing server database issues once upon a time ago. It really hasnt been a problem since we upgraded to a ded server.

wow thats alot of posts, it will take my forum years to achieve that!