As you can see, this forum has grown tremendously over the past year. We now have almost 14,000 posts in CCNA forum alone.

I am thinking of deleting some old topics that's older than let's say 8 months. Having fewer topics will improve the performance of the forum.

Before I proceed I want to get the opinion of our members.

Should I delete topics that's older than 6 month, older than 8 months or just don't delete any topics yet, and wait until we get to 20,000 posts.

By the way, our server can handle the load right now, and we actually plan to move to another server with dual PIII and 1Gig ram.

We will also be upgrading the forum soon - a couple weeks after the new version of UBB is released.

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My vote is against deleting the posts. Good info can be found even if it's more than 8 months old.

I have two other suggestions:

1. Increase the width of the search box to more than the current 25 characters.

2. Allow a search to return more more than 200 hits. (I would like to find all my posts in one search ).

Cheers!

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I say delete, because new members join us all the time and they ask a lot of the same questions. So I bet good amount of post are on here a good fews times.

Kevin.

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Would it be possible to archive topics prior to July 1, 2000? That is the date the 640-507 exam was released to the general public.

Moving the topics to the archive would effectively reduce the number of live topics in the forum, but would leave the topics available to researchers.

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I'm against deleting old topics. There's still good reference stuff in there. If you're absolutely forced to delete some because of performance, at least wait until there's 20,000 or so posts.

MadChef

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Originally posted by TheSkipster:
Would it be possible to archive topics prior to July 1, 2000? That is the date the 640-507 exam was released to the general public.

Moving the topics to the archive would effectively reduce the number of live topics in the forum, but would leave the topics available to researchers.

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Is there any way to automatically delete archived posts on a FIFO basis?

If performance is an issue, I'll wait if it means keeping the archived posts around a little longer.

Just my two cents.

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Hi;

Is there any chance of archiving the old posts (test 407) in a juke box? That way they are still available for recall, and they are off of the main server that is keeping track of the posts.

One other suggestion that I didn't see is creating a FAQ page that would cover a lot of the questions that are asked repeatedly. These would most likely cover the basic questions such as subnetting, syntax, OSI questions, etc.

JerryL

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Great suggestion Jerry L.

I know allot of the guys that have been here a while probably get tired of answering the same question over and over and over. Then the new and well thought out questions seem a burden to them. It would make it easier on the higher level members this way, if it is possible. Maybe a page that only the moderator can post to containing questions and answers that are frequently asked.

That would be cool(if possible)

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yeah, I also think that deleting the old items isn't a good idea, Maybe you could create another forum (something like CCNA archive) dump everything older then 6moths in there and lock it up, so no one can add to it, then just leave this one running. When I use the search feature I don't like finding just one thread, I like to read lots of different views and explanations of issues, by deleting the old stuff we will lose that benfit. thanks, webmaster, for listening to our opinions on this.


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