Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

It looks like we are going to be switching to v-bulletin. For now, we're going to archive everything prior to January 1 2007.

That should take care of performance issues until the move. When we do move, we will only be transferring three months to the new forums. Previous posts will be archived on ubb.

Because archiving will require some downtime, it will begin early Sunday.

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

If it'll put a stop to these slowdowns, I'm very much looking forward to it.

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

^^yea, this is getting really annoying to have to wait like a min to load every other page...

so when the forums are upgraded, only the last 3 months of posts at that time will be transferred?? so are u indicating our favorites links should be backed up??

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

Are you going to archive posts that had the OP prior to 1/1/07, or are you going to archive posts that have the most recent response before 1/1/07?

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

Why not just do it ASAP (read: now) and get it out of the way?

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

We'll archive threads with no activity since 1/1/07. If, all of a sudden in response to this announcement a lot of threads become active again we may have to archive even more threads. I want to get the database down to about half it's current size or smaller and if it takes more then I'll do more.

When we eventually move to new software we will only take about 3 months of threads with us (as Mat said). We will not take PM's. We will not take favorite threads. However, the old forums will remain in read-only mode and your PM's and favorites will still exist.

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We will not take PM's.

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Chuck - any way to export PMs before the transfer?

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

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We'll archive threads with no activity since 1/1/07. If, all of a sudden in response to this announcement a lot of threads become active again we may have to archive even more threads. I want to get the database down to about half it's current size or smaller and if it takes more then I'll do more.

When we eventually move to new software we will only take about 3 months of threads with us (as Mat said). We will not take PM's. We will not take favorite threads. However, the old forums will remain in read-only mode and your PM's and favorites will still exist.

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Good call.

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

Mat & Chuck,

Thanks for the update.

Re: Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness
 

so we won't be able to ninja bump threads from '05?