Wayback obviously crawls our site frequently and grabs "captures" of it. Here's the Wayback link to the existing Forum, so one must assume the Forum posts it has archived will never go away and are frozen in the sands of time?
If so, everyone has access to them as long as Wayback Archive stays around.
BJG145 wrote:Couldn't you just archive the Word Association thread instead?
I have made the WA topic a 'sticky' so it will not get pruned. However, at some point I will have to go back in and split it up into a few locked read-only topics to reduce the burden on the server of its current 1,168 pages. But that can wait a while yet...
BJG145 wrote:Couldn't you just archive the Word Association thread instead?
Fair point.
I've already had a request from a regular forum user not to prune that one
Martin
Maybe we could just delete the existing thread and start a new Word Association Thread with the last post of the old thread as the first of the new one.
How many people read old posts in that thread? It is just making it go forward that we want.
Probably not helpful in the current context, but how the heck does Gearslutz - whoops! I mean the site that must not be named - manage it? According to their site, they have 1,050,284 threads with 12,579,207 posts. And I have never noticed any 'pruning'.
jimjazzdad wrote:Probably not helpful in the current context, but how the heck does Gearslutz - whoops! I mean the site that must not be named - manage it? According to their site, they have 1,050,284 threads with 12,579,207 posts. And I have never noticed any 'pruning'.
Different beasts -- GS is purely a forum. SOS is an entire, very large site with many strings to its bow.
You guys know what SoS can afford to store, but it seems to me that the topics below are the "SoS Core" topics :
Recording: Gear & Techniques
Music Theory, Songwriting & Composition
Mixing, Mastering & Post Production
Live Sound & Performance
SOS Support Forum
so my suggestion would be to prune these as lightly as possible, commensurate with the need to reduce the storage burden. Obviously other topics would then be subject to greater pruning.
OK I take back my post, Martin. Prune away at WA. I’ll count on the SOS hive mind to continue with witty and some downright funny associations!
Am I asking too much??
ManFromGlass wrote:OK I take back my post, Martin. Prune away at WA. I’ll count on the SOS hive mind to continue with witty and some downright funny associations!
Am I asking too much??
No you're not asking too much - I'm sure the hive mind will continue to keep this thread alive.
If we honestly thought that anyone would wade through all 1171 pages of this thread it might be worth keeping it all, but I seriously doubt that this will happen
It might be worth hanging on to the most recent few months, but not every word since October 2012
BJG145 wrote:Couldn't you just archive the Word Association thread instead?
Fair point.
I've already had a request from a regular forum user not to prune that one
Martin
Maybe we could just delete the existing thread and start a new Word Association Thread with the last post of the old thread as the first of the new one.
How many people read old posts in that thread? It is just making it go forward that we want.
Laugh if you like, but if I'm feeling a bit MEH two topics I do have a browse through are the word association one and the make up a lie one. Between them they brighten me up no end.
