Re: deletion of forums: problems and adjustment

Posted by Franklin <Nabble> on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Why-are-Certain-Forums-and-Topics-suddenly-scheduled-for-deletion-tp4131246p4720523.html

dandv wrote

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.

We will change the deletion warning on the forum to let anyone save it.  So all it will take is one user seeing the warning and responding to it to save the forum.

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?

We can also handle huge forums.  We have a distributed architecture so we can distribute forums among servers.  What we can't afford is to keep large amounts of content that no one care about (which I call "junk").  The problem with junk is that it costs money to keep but has no potential for ever generating revenue.  A big active forum is fine because we can eventually either put up ads or ask to be paid.  But junk is just a drain for us.  The cost of junk is the added hardware needed to handle the junk, not the disk to store it.  We use Postgres and it's okay.  The scaling up issues for us aren't technical, they are financial.  We can keep adding servers as long as the content on the server can pay for the server and its maintenance (sysadmin work).