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Old Jul 20, 2011, 02:05 PM
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I have noticed several threads going poof in Games.

The latest one is the "what would you do if..." thread. It has vanished! I have gone back 6 pages.

What is happening to these threads?

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Old Jul 20, 2011, 02:16 PM
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this one?

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showthread.php?t=185872
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Old Jul 20, 2011, 10:59 PM
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There are a lot of games in Games. I only close the ones that reach 100 pages (or 1,000 posts) - no removal. It's easy to overlook a thread though since there are so many!!
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Old Jul 21, 2011, 02:37 AM
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That is the one. Oh boy, so I did overlook it. Sorry about that. But there are some other threads that are no longer there. I swear.

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Old Jul 21, 2011, 11:51 AM
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Is there thread pruning used on PC?
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Old Jul 22, 2011, 09:14 AM
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Is there thread pruning used on PC?
What are you referring to when you say "thread pruning"?
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Old Jul 22, 2011, 06:31 PM
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What are you referring to when you say "thread pruning"?
Most of the forums only go back to 2010 some only to 2011 like "Psychotherapy" with PC having it's origin in 2003 if I am correct. Ain't it a bit too aggressive in reducing the server load with the way it removes older threads from the database. There are other ways to keep PC fast.
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Old Jul 22, 2011, 06:41 PM
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Most of the forums only go back to 2010 some only to 2011 like "Psychotherapy" with PC having it's origin in 2003 if I am correct. Ain't it a bit too aggressive in reducing the server load with the way it removes older threads from the database. There are other ways to keep PC fast.
If you look down at the blue bar at the bottom of your screen, there is a link to "archive", where all posts go after a certain time on the forum.. hope this helps.
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Old Jul 22, 2011, 06:49 PM
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How many people on PC use the archive link or even know it exist?
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Old Jul 22, 2011, 06:53 PM
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I'm not sure, as many people don't read posts that far back. Sometimes I'll read them for reference...

If someone is looking for this type of thing, they can always start a thread asking for assistance

Edit: I think a thread is moved to the archive about two months after its last post...if you go to the last page of any forum, the last thread will be dated from late May.
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Old Jul 22, 2011, 10:28 PM
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It's just your settings, Lostime. In Psychotherapy, when I scroll down to "Display Options" and select "from the beginning" I get 623 pages of threads dating back to 2004.

Btw, the same stickies appear at the top of every page. You have to scroll down past them to see the real date range for that page.
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Old Jul 23, 2011, 03:48 AM
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Mine was set to show posts from the last two months. I set it to the "beginning" and all the missing threads are there. Viola.

I should have known that

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Old Jul 23, 2011, 04:24 AM
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