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Why do long threads have to be closed every so often

14-10-2022 02:37PM

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Why do long threads have to be closed every so often then a new one opened? example in the liveline thread . Every ten thousand posts I think?
Just curious

Post edited by Spear on November 2022

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#2 14-10-2022 02:40PM

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They don't.
The old 10,000 post limit was due to performance bottleneck in vbulletin. Vanilla doesn't have that problem, pretty much the only thing it does better than vbulletin.

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#3 14-10-2022 02:44PM

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As above, the Liveline thread is currently on 80.5 k posts.

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#4 14-10-2022 02:44PM

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Ok thanks often wondered.

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