Re: deletion of forums: problems and adjustment

Posted by dandv on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Why-are-Certain-Forums-and-Topics-suddenly-scheduled-for-deletion-tp4131246p4720451.html

What if the forum admin is no longer watching their e-mail? What if they're on a sabbatical? What if someone else needs that information a month after Nabble has deleted it? "Nobody cares about anymore" is a temporary state. Deletion is a permanent solution.

How come that the huge forums listed at http://www.big-boards.com/ (Gaia online - 1.7 Billion posts) don't feel a need to delete topics?

If database performance is the problem, then deleting certainly isn't the solution. Knowledge accumulates at a faster rate than deletion - at least for a successful forum/mailing list archive solution. If database performance is the problem, then it needs to be addressed, not worked around by deletion. Deletion won't scale anyway.

I'm sure there are FOSS solutions lying around. Yahoo! has used petabyte PostgreSQL databases with good success. BDB is also very fast. I'm not saying migrating would be easy, or addressing scalability concerns is trivial. But it's the right thing to do.