Fraize_Websleuths
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I manage a forum with decades worth of content, and there are some institutionalized rules our mods have passed down since our original vBulletin and Xenforo 1.x days that I'm questioning. Specifically, we have a rule that when a thread reaches 50 pages, we close the thread and spin up a new thread with #2, #3, #4 etc. appended. The intent being that threads with many pages are slow to load for our users that are still on rural dial-up speeds.
I think this practice hasn't been necessary for quite a long time, if it ever was. My own testing indicates there's no difference in load-times between a 2 page thread and a 50 page thread. Not for nothing, I think splitting our long threads is actually harming our SEO.
Our most-senior mod did ask an interesting question, though – is there a practical maximum limit to the number of pages a thread can have?
I think this practice hasn't been necessary for quite a long time, if it ever was. My own testing indicates there's no difference in load-times between a 2 page thread and a 50 page thread. Not for nothing, I think splitting our long threads is actually harming our SEO.
Our most-senior mod did ask an interesting question, though – is there a practical maximum limit to the number of pages a thread can have?
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