I suggest that in order to save on space and costs of operating this site that you consider purging older threads from the database. Of what use is it to have anything over 30 days stored?
Most people come across the site when they search for something in google. If there was only 30 days worth of threads stored, there'd be a lot less visitors and new members. A lot of the threads are full of interesting information and it'd be a shame, for the authors and for everyone else if that information was deleted.
Phonetic, your comments are insightful and offer knowledge I had no previously considered. I am uncertain what the best course of action might be now... perhaps anything older than 1 year should be discarded?
Perhaps nothing should be discarded for the reasons listed above and more. This is a wonderful reference place (except for the crap threads) and a piece of history for a lot of the users here. People like to go back and read stuff they wrote and others wrote. Drive space is very cheap. How much do you really think will be saved by deleting the historical threads?
We'd be deleting archives of already debated material that people could link to when inevitably debating the same things over and over.
I agree with others here with at least a brain cell, deleting old threads is a truly moronic idea! Not only would you be deleting a lot of historic and old threads and much of the best material this site has to offer, but also a lot of new visitors, who come here by search engines. I suggest darksidZz hides in a deep hole where no-one can hear him speak such nonsense.
Using extremely crude and inaccurate measuring tools i predict that sciforum uses around 600 MB, well within the size range of a "cheap" web hotel in my country. how ever what properly cost the most is bandwidth so i suggest that if you truly want to save sci a few dimes you stop wasting bandwidth with pointless and foolish threads
So that's universal condemnation then? Thank God for that. Maybe you all do have a sense of the sacred after all. Us bottom-dwellers like the crap more than anything else.
I think the first thread had something about UFO's, or may be not. We once had found it, only to forget it again. Meh.
This is the first and probably last time I'll vote in one of derenzi's polls. Voting to purge: darksidzz (or whatever he's called); perplexity; Sauna. Seriously weird.
Don't think so, check the date. Btw, I found it, the very, very first! http://web.archive.org/web/19991007105311/www.exosci.com/discuss/messages/32.html I feel like Indiana discovering the Ark Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I use achieved threads in the old Exosci forums to boost my post count. A few people know this. But anyway... why purge old threads? There's a gold mine of information in the database. If we purged old threads, what would encourage people to join this site? There would be nothing indexed in Google, for example. Plus, we would just encourage discussions of the same topics over and over again. That happens now, but not as much as it could happen.
