I will try to evaluate but I kinda walked into this.
This is a shared hosting account. So I do not have access to everything I would like.
And of course I have no history on what the host has done.
I also have no idea who or what was changed over the years.
All I know is it was updated over the years per the owner.
And I did the current update to 7.7.4 from 7.6X
The only modifications I did was shorten the refresh time for the wol page and changing post body and post default body in the posts table to longtext..
So the re builders would complete.
Of course I did have to do some DB diving to fix the corrupted/orphaned forums from past deletions that were never successful

It appears it is working correctly for now and not causing any issues with the various functions.

Since I am not getting any errors now it is difficult to find those huge posts now.


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