linsook Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I just saw somewhere that creating topics takes up space and impacts performance so the owners actively close threads. Is there any merit to this? If so, would deleting the thread rather than closing not be better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 remixedcat Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 it does, however if you run software like IPB you can easily have some scheduled tasks to clean old posts, etc from the following ACP area: System > System Scheduler And have it setup to remove old posts from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ]SK[ Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 A blank forum database is always going to run more quickly than one with lots of data in it. I don't like the idea of deleting peoples history so never purged my forums. I didn't run a overly big forum though so everything easily ran from low end hardware. 52,000 posts in 4,000 threads. vB 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I just saw somewhere that creating topics takes up space and impacts performance so the owners actively close threads. Is there any merit to this? If so, would deleting the thread rather than closing not be better?
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