My sincere apologies, Dave.
As Jamin mentioned I wrongly read it as sarcasm.
Just trying to push forth an idea for large-scale UBBT boards as it doesn't seem feasible to leave everything in a single table. Sooner or later with a popular board it will grow to 300mb, 500mb, 700mb, 1GB+. And at some point parts of the forums (probably the oldest threads) are either going to have to be deleted or moved.
There is also another idea: instead of moving threads manually there could be a single CP admin option to decide when certain threads would automatically end up in the archive. This would be global and would apply to all threads. Say if the admin sets this to 2 years - then all posts which haven't had a reply within those 2 years would automatically be moved to the archive.
- people could either search the main site, or if they are looking for something which they think might be older than 2 yrs then they have the option to search the archive. Maybe the search engine can even encompass both altogether in a single search query.
- if things ever get slow or out of hand, a single click could turn the archive off for the time being, until everything is moved to a new server/more memory is installed/etc.
Either way, archived posts would only be available via a special search function so they would not burden the main board by being part of the main database that 99% of users access.
