XF 1.4 Large thread considerations

[BentDreams]

I currently have a thread with just under 30,000 posts in it.

Is there any reason why we should think about closing it and starting a fresh thread?

Thanks

 

[Paul B]

No particular reason.

I believe I have seen a post about a thread with double that number of posts.

I'll see if I can find it.

Here you go:

https://xenforo.com/community/threa...-at-handling-large-threads.84378/#post-836662

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/your-largest-thread-s.97429/

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-large-is-your-largest-thread.4543/

 

[BentDreams]

Thanks for the quick response. Some of my users were asking about it because they are having some issues with the page "jumping" they are computer novices though and I suspect it is just the typical page load shuffling that happens as images are loaded. Our threads tend to have several images per page in addition to the ones in signatures. 10 to 15 images in a single page isn't uncommon.

I'm using the image proxy to help with baseline performance and it does make a difference.

 

[Paul B]

Yes, that sounds like the typical behaviour as images are loaded.
It's not related to the number of posts.

 

[AndyB]

See post #8 and post #9 of this thread:

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/how-do-you-deal-with-very-long-threads.46108/

Apparently there are some issues with threads that have many posts.