[victor-victor]

I might have been hibernation over winter :shock: and I have noticed posts before July 2006 are no longer available.

Has AKFF site must have been cleaned up?

Just curious because I started looking for old posts.

Victor

 

[Davey G]

yeah, I think that admin/mods needed to 'trim' some old posts to stop the forum/website from locking up with too much info. Hence old posts were cropped.

 

[victor-victor]

Does this mean the site keep about a year's worth of posts? :?:

I think might start saving some of those special posts..... hmm

 

[Scott]

Most sections such as the main one and a few others get cropped periodically to remove all posts over 6 months old. The advertisement and site suggestion sections get cropped at the same time although anything older than 2 months rather than 6 months gets cropped. Others such as the online comp, catch of the day and the HOF never get cropped. Our reasons for doing this is to minimise the database size and to improve site performance.

Catch ya Scott

 

[victor-victor]

6 months is not very long...

I was looking at some of the do it yourself posts and the great advice given is now lost.

I suppose we can ask the questions all over again and get new advice!.

Victor

 

[Scott]

Victor, that is exactly it mate. You ask the question(s) again and get a better reply than the original one due to the additional time factor revealing limitations in the first replies and additional users creating new solutions within that time. The other thing is that we have generated over 23,000 posts within the last 6 months so it keeps everything at a manageable level.

We could I guess think of having a section for classic posts where posts/topics which users thought were absolute gold were placed and this section was not cropped.

Catch ya Scott

 

[victor-victor]

Scott.

Sage Advice section would be great for those special and yet timeless posts. I would be interesting which post would make it 8) to the Sages Folder. :shock:

Thaanks the the update.

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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[Scott]

Red, if that would work that would be a simple fix. How would one establish this do you think?

Catch ya Scott

 

[RedPhoenix]

Unfortunately, due to the change in ownership of this web site and the lack of response by the owners to my requests to remove my email address from all administrative-level notifications and functionality, I have decided to remove my posts on AKFF. Thank you for the great times, the fantastic learning experiences and the many many fish. If you are desperate for the old content of this particular post, it is available below base64 encoded and bzip2 compressed.

Red.

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[Ironsides]

Some posts are too good to lose.

Ian

 

[PeterJ]

I may be on the wrong track but whats the point of having the best (was largest) database of information in Aus on kayak fishing just to throw it out :?: At times after 8 weeks :!:

 

[Scott]

Peter, the only two sections which are cropped at 8 weeks are the classifieds and the site suggestions. What is the point of retaining them longer than that? The other thing is by the time I get a chance to crop them they have generally been online for 4 or so months. I don't see the point of having the maximum amount of posts if it takes forever for the pages to load. This will deter more potential members than old posts being deleted. Since it seems that the average user is in favour of exceptional posts being retained we can do this.

Catch ya Scott

 

[PeterJ]

Fair enough but that still leaves all others after 6 gone.

Anyway , thats life. 8)

 

[Peril]

My two bobs worth is that some of the forums, like Rigged Kayaks see very little posts but get read a fair bit so are worth and cheap to preserve. It is really only the high-volume forums, like Main, Fishing Trips, Trip Reports and Off Topic that need to be pruned. Most of the valuable info is in other forums so can be preserved without problem

 

[troppo]

My thought for the day (my only one so far): Can the important posts be saved to another site in some searchable/readable format? Can someone give me figures on how much disk space we are talking about?

 

[victor-victor]

I must admit what triggered this thread was I was looking for and old trip report in Forster (april this year) and looking for placed to fish and some of the experiences as I am going that way just before xmas and some threads in the "do it youself" section.

I would love to keep hairymicks experiences when building his boat (Kadaitchi) and some of the tips and experiences provided in the thread. This thread would insperation to others who would like to give it ago some time in the future. This would have been a classic thread to the "sages advice" section.

... If we could create a section like "sages adivce" section or what ever it is called, who be a positive thing.

The future is just around the corner, 8) may our line be tight and our forum filled with sages. :shock: :shock: ... what ever happen to varp?

 

[Peril]

Thanks for the info - is it really a performance issue? I find that PHBB really doesn't suffer with a lot more posts than this.

If it is really a disk space issue - isn't there a better alternative?

Not a disk space issue. Our host ran some tests and interpreted the results to mean that the server was performing fine but our queries were running very slow.

Since we have been pruning and running a bit of maintenance I have noticed an improvement in performance, particularly as the pruning has been more aggressive.

It is possible that our server/database is not tuned for phpbb, but we are operating in a captive environment on a shared server so there is a limit to what we can tweak.

I'm interested to see what you guys want to keep. Then we can try to find a way to keep you guys happy. An archive forum springs to mind (like the old one), but I don't know how easy that would be

 

[Dodge]

My two bobs worth is that some of the forums, like Rigged Kayaks see very little posts but get read a fair bit so are worth and cheap to preserve. It is really only the high-volume forums, like Main, Fishing Trips, Trip Reports and Off Topic that need to be pruned. Most of the valuable info is in other forums so can be preserved without problem

With pruning required, this suggestion of Dave's seems a good compromise

Edit 28/11: since reading later posts I hadn,t realized DIY was cropped, and like later posters think this is an important one to save for newer members to peruse.

 

[hairymick]

Hi guys,

I was tempted o respond much earlier than this but decided to wait and see where it went.

I am a IT idiot so can have no useful input into the logistics of cropping verses no cropping.

I believe that there have been some classic threads that are now lost for all time. It would be a shame to lose more. (remember Varp)

If at all possible, I would love to see these classics preserved. Perhaps, as mentioned before, in an archived secion?

Like Ross, (Meoldchina) I try to put as much usefull information into my trip reports as I can think of at the time, partially for my future reference but mostly to assist others in making decisions re where & when to fish.

I see also that the 'do it your self' section has been cropped. The fact that some of my posts were cropped does not concern me at all. Most of this information is saved on my hard drive. My point is, that there was a wealth of information in this section that is now lost. A quick and ready reference for those newer members to peruse. Certainly, each and every DIY could be improved but would it not be easier to improve a concept if one had access to the original idea?

Thats my two bobs worth anyway.