What is your longest ongoing thread?

[philmckrackon]

How old and how many posts? As of now, 9,035 posts and 452 pages. https://jeep-cj.com/community/threads/what-did-you-do-to-or-with-your-cj-today.33108/

 

[HotRodCarts]

18K+ posts, 893 pages, 2020.

 

[Suzanne O]

Always a general chat thread

 

[lazy llama]

271k posts, 9043 pages, thread started in 2010

 

[Ricsca]

I think such long discussions could create problems for the database, not to mention transfers...

 

[rdn]

32K replies, 2M views, 3-year-old thread.

 

[woody]

42k replies, 6m views and started in 2008
100k replies, started in 2023 (chat thread)
77k replies, 10m views, started in 2012

 

[duderuud]

162k replies, 506k views, started in 2019

Earlier threads were created in other software which couldn't handle very large threads so they were closed after 2500 replies.

 

[lazy llama]

162k replies, 506k views, started in 2019

Earlier threads were created in other software which couldn't handle very large threads so they were closed after 2500 replies.

Same, vB wasn't good with big threads - so the 271k post thread is actually 'part 5'.
My experience has been that Xenforo handles large threads and conversations really well. I've not even had issues with most add-ons, apart from one which got a bit stressed at a DM conversation of thousands of pages.

 

[JamesBrown]

On the back of some long lost VB forum advice; we used to always close them at 1000 replies..Not sure why

This is our oldest/longest

 

[ehd]

410k posts, 7.5 million views. Since 2018
240k posts, 13.5 million views. Since 2006

 

[rdn]

8-year-old thread.

 

[Walter]

332k posts since 2012.

No problem with Xenforo.

 

[FTL]

The Trump thread by a country mile: 1927 posts and 78 pages at 25 posts per page. Started August 2022.

The Trump thread

It's been a long time coming, far too long in fact; a whole lifetime, but it looks like the game will soon be up for Donald Trump. I think there's a decent chance that he'll go to prison and thus be out of the presidential race and the threat of actually becoming president again. I think there...

nerdzone.uk

 

[Salocin Reidrev]

271k posts, 9043 pages, thread started in 2010

What’s the topic?

 

[lazy llama]

What’s the topic?

“I'm on ur boardz, wasting ur bandwidthz (Pt 5)” - memes, GIFs and funny things posted from social media.

A lot of the other threads are more political and topical, but that one and a few other general topics endure through the years.

 

[Alvin63]

Word association game! 13,000 posts over the life of the forum (3 years). Not much to write home about compared with the above statistics.