Board slowdowns, so threads locked!

[AustinChief]

Just a heads up. MEGA threads slow the board down immensely. I just closed a few that were causing issues. So if anyone wants to, they need to be created as new threads. I will likely be closing down ANY thread that gets in the 3000+ post range as we get closer to the season so if you see a thread that is getting too big, start a new one and give me or a mod a shout to close the old one.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I'm on a giant hockey forum that runs on vBulletin (HFBoards), and they actually lock threads at 1k posts. That would be insane here, but it shows that even much bigger boards have the same issues we do.

They must have like 500 mods with the number of forums and the way they micromanage.

[cmh6476]

has anyone ever been to cyberspace?

[Predarat]

Can anyone direct me to the downtime facebook site?

[cmh6476]

www.downtimefacebook.com

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Predarat

Can anyone direct me to the downtime facebook site?

Those are two different things, though I'm sure people in the CP Facebook group talk about things when the server is being cranky. The old "downtime" forum is here:

http://s10.zetaboards.com/Downtime_CP/index/

You can also just google Downtime Chiefsplanet.

[TimeForWasp]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

I deleted it, I'm testing something, hold your horses.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

Just a heads up. MEGA threads slow the board down immensely. I just closed a few that were causing issues. So if anyone wants to, they need to be created as new threads. I will likely be closing down ANY thread that gets in the 3000+ post range as we get closer to the season so if you see a thread that is getting too big, start a new one and PM Bob Dole to close the old one.

FOP.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

They must have like 500 mods with the number of forums and the way they micromanage.

Probably something close to that. They have at least 2 mods per every team forum and others for "the Lounge", Baseball, Football, etc.

[suzzer99]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Yeah, that's the gist of it. When you open a thread, it has to parse through the ID's of all posts in the thread first, then hone in on the page you want to be on. Because of that, the bigger a thread gets, the more of a problem it is. In addition, a big thread that only gets opened now and then isn't a big deal, but a big thread that is really active can cause major slowdowns (since it's constantly having to re-parse the thread).

I'm on a giant hockey forum that runs on vBulletin (HFBoards), and they actually lock threads at 1k posts. That would be insane here, but it shows that even much bigger boards have the same issues we do.

twoplustwo.com has tons of mega-threads and they've never had this problem. I wonder what they're doing differently?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by suzzer99

twoplustwo.com has tons of mega-threads and they've never had this problem. I wonder what they're doing differently?

Yeah, tough to say. Part of it may be that they don't appear to do a lot of mega threads for live events. The formula for dragging down the database is:

Big Thread + Lots of people refreshing the thread at a time = DOOM!!!
(aka, live sports events when something exciting happens)

Or it could just be that they're able to throw a lot more hardware at it than we can. Or maybe they've figured out some way to better optimize the database.