Lags in threads with many pages...

[Rodion Romanovich]

I've noticed there's a lot more lag for both viewing and posting in threads with many pages (typically over 5 is enough to cause noticeably more lags, and over 10 pages gives extremely horrible lags) compared to threads with fewer pages... Can it be solved, if not by any other method by for example fragmenting the larger popular threads into several threads with the first post in the sequel threads containing links back to the older versions of the thread?

[The Spartan (Returns)]

yeah such as the One Word Story 2 thread.

[edyzmedieval]

The Org is very laggy since TosaInu left. :inquisitive:

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

It... misses him...

[Blodrast]

I doubt lag has anything to do with threads with a high number of pages.
I've had lag for 2-page threads (waiting to load the second page), and no lag in threads with tens of pages.

How about we stop trying to speculate for a while, and let Kukri, who can actually do some measurements, let us know in his own good time what he thinks the problem is ?

Speculating, and throwing around ideas, is perfectly good and fine, and can even be productive (see brainstorming), as long as we acknowledge that is exactly that: speculating. We don't know, or have scientifically established, whether threads with multiple pages are slower to load or not, whether forums with more users are slower to load or not, and so on.

If anyone has their own forum online, and can play with it and give us some factual results, great ! Until then, let's not make up solutions for problems that may be inexistant (prune the backroom, make short threads, etc.).

[Avicenna]

..scientifically establish?

:inquisitive:

Anyway, new one word story anyone?

[Blodrast]

..scientifically establish?

:inquisitive:

Anyway, new one word story anyone?

Ok, bad English on my part. I meant, "through actual experiments". Not by claiming "Oh, today at 13:45, thread x with 5 pages loaded slowly", because those are not significant.
Why ? Well, I just gave you opposite proof in my previous post.

At the very least, observe this for a _large_ (i.e., enough to be statistically significant) number of posts and threads, over several subforums (not just one). Also, take measurements at various times of the day, to make sure that the slowdowns really come from the thread and not from some other bottleneck somewhere on the net.
However, the best way, by all means, is to setup your own board and run tests on it.

That's what I meant by "scientifically", and I apologize for the unnecessarily pompous term - as I said, bad English on my part.

[Big_John]

fwiw, in the EB forums, the local mods there tend to close threads that reach 1000 posts for slow-down concerns. i'm not sure what prompted us to start doign that, though.

[cunctator]

One old screenshots thread became corrupted and unviewable, approx. one year ago.