The longest forum thread on the internet

[Wildcat Media]

Won't mention the forum (not going to self-advertise), but this is in our main area:

And no hiccup with XenForo at all.

 

[JamesBrown]

Won't mention the forum (not going to self-advertise), but this is in our main area:

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And no hiccup with XenForo at all.

Is that an option to show Replies and views as full numbers. Mine are rounded to the nearest K

 

[Paul B]

Edit the phrases x_b, x_k, x_m and change {number}B|K|M to {default}.

 

[Forsaken]

I think you'll find that was Kier.

Kim also did one with a cake/cupcake she baked, and got some out-of-pocket PM from someone.

Who’s Kim?

One of the first style creators for XF (originally from IPB) who I ran Xenique with.

 

[CedricV]

Kim also did one with a cake/cupcake she baked, and got some out-of-pocket PM from someone.



One of the first style creators for XF (originally from IPB) who I ran Xenique with.

Curious, whatever happened to Xenique? I remember some unique themes.

 

[Wildcat Media]

Is that an option to show Replies and views as full numbers. Mine are rounded to the nearest K

It's a third-party style. But the edits @Paul B posted will get you there also.

 

[Forsaken]

Curious, whatever happened to Xenique? I remember some unique themes.

Kim moved on to other interests (she had a bakery in New Zealand for a while), and I had a lot of different reasons as to why I no longer enjoyed or had time to do styles for other people. I still do work for some old clients, but it's irregular and I mostly have focused on my own communities, or projects outside of XF.

 

[ge66]

What is the longest forum thread on the internet?

Some user asked in our long threads.
We are at 208k replies.
Mostly conversations, a little bit of post bumping. Maybe less then 5%.

Id like to answer my users question. Anyone know?

I actually hava set a limit, that threads can have 2000 replies then it get locked and they have to start a new thread.
The original reason for this I think was that to big threads under vBulletin slowed down the forum. I have kept it as I think it is good to keep threads a bit shorter and they get better visibility in my widgets.

The users have created a thread about what they do right now. The latest is number 204. So if it had all been in one thread it would have been more than 400000 replies.

 

[Kleazy]

I actually hava set a limit, that threads can have 2000 replies then it get locked and they have to start a new thread.
The original reason for this I think was that to big threads under vBulletin slowed down the forum. I have kept it as I think it is good to keep threads a bit shorter and they get better visibility in my widgets.

The users have created a thread about what they do right now. The latest is number 204. So if it had all been in one thread it would have been more than 400000 replies.

Impressive.

My users use it as a whatever type thread. I think every community needs one of those hands of rambling anything goes thread.

 

[nocte]

We have a 1 million posts thread (all user generated chit chat).

But we closed it for performance reasons.

 

[dutchbb]

180K, split off in 2010, not necessary anymore to split with xf.

 

[Suzanne O]

On my own forum i limit it to 20 pages long. But we love the general chat threads.

 

[FTL]

We have a 1 million posts thread (all user generated chit chat).

But we closed it for performance reasons.

Epic, I've gotta see that! Any chance of a link?

 

[Mendalla]

I actually hava set a limit, that threads can have 2000 replies then it get locked and they have to start a new thread.
The original reason for this I think was that to big threads under vBulletin slowed down the forum. I have kept it as I think it is good to keep threads a bit shorter and they get better visibility in my widgets.

Yeah, I am on a site like that. They had the same issue on VB and then converted to XF but kept the limit (though they are loosey goosey with it now and some threads run over by a bit before being closed). Some threads really are best kept to a reasonable length, I think.

On my own site, we've hit 63,000 and change in one thread but it's kind of a combo game and chit-chat thread so is fine running long like that. Makes the game more fun, too, as people try to be the one who posts xx,000 and stuff like that.

 

[frm]

I actually hava set a limit, that threads can have 2000 replies then it get locked and they have to start a new thread.

To follow in the footsteps of other image boards, I also did this to lock the thread at 100 replies (but it's a custom input so I think I have it at 20 for now).

Locking also "archives" it (if you can call it that) because the add on also changes the sort order shows open threads before locked ones, so they go to the back of the node.

 

[Walter]

One of my forums has a thread with 331K replies and a second one with 130K. No performance problems.

 

[JamesBrown]

One of my forums has a thread with 331K replies and a second one with 130K. No performance problems.

Same, we have a couple of threads reaching at almost 500k responses, no performance issues.

 

[Wildcat Media]

I actually hava set a limit, that threads can have 2000 replies then it get locked and they have to start a new thread.
The original reason for this I think was that to big threads under vBulletin slowed down the forum.

Ouch, I remember those days. Prior to my taking over as server admin for one of the forums I manage, the server was hacked, and the previous admin was trying to restore from a backup...and found that a long thread with around 3400 replies that was making MySQL slow way down when vB's search was trying to index that particular thread. To get around it, I believe he may have soft-deleted the thread and moved it to an unindexed area of the forum, and instituted a 1000 reply limit.

But to be honest, it took our staff and members a few years to get used to when I removed the limit after we'd settled in with XenForo. (I think that was 2011 or 2012 when I converted from vB.) The limit is no longer needed. We have some long-running threads, but most of them are off-topic or relatively unimportant, so if they are not contributing to SEO, it's no big deal. (Most are in non-public forums anyway.)

BTW, we were running vB 3.7 when we made the conversion. I had so many customizations to the code to get it to run on a busy server that it would have been overwhelming to try to remember and apply all those fixes to vB 3.8. The Sphinx search engine in particular was a major improvement we couldn't live without--searches were completed in under 1 second vs. 30-60 seconds with MySQL fulltext search.