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Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois
Firstly - I have zero technical expertise in this area and should probably be ignored
Secondly - I, personally, don't place a high value on the histories of this place, the old threads from 5, 10 years ago - even though I have hung out here for 20+ years.
Wildy uninformed proposal: Just migrate user names and info to a new platform and let the users create all new threads for the topics of interest. It would seem like that would be an easier transfer than all the threads, links, pics, etc. For instance, how often do people look back to page 10 of a 30 page thread? I know I don't.
Of course, there should probably be some sort of poll to gauge whether this approach is acceptable to the users.
I'll shut my ignorant and insensitive mouth now.
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I've wondered about it. Part of our problem is that we have a post table with like 15 million rows, and that gets accessed and sorted literally every time someone loads a thread.
But in theory, that SHOULD be a surmountable problem, and there's no question that the deep history of this place is part of its appeal. I'd be hesitant to just throw all of that out if we can get around it (and I think we can).