A lot of slowdowns recently

**Mount Suribachi** · 06-11-2006, 16:34

The answer is simple my friends.

We simply need to delete the backroom

**x-dANGEr** · 06-12-2006, 12:30

Noooo! Delete the Tavern.

**naut** · 06-12-2006, 13:52

I don't know about deleting the backroom, but yes it is very slow. I got the hugest lag loading the backroom or getting to a different location from the backroom.

**therother** · 06-12-2006, 15:51

If the OT forums are impairing performance, then IMO they should be pruned. I can't really see a downside to this: the Backroom has been pruned before, mostly without ill effect. AFAICT, topics over 3-4 weeks old are rarely worth keeping online, and Kukri can keep a local copy should anyone need something from the offline posts.

Even if they aren't impairing performance, it might be worthwhile pruning the Tavern every couple of months or so anyway. We are up to almost a million online posts now, a quarter of them in the Tavern. "Million post" forums are considered pretty large, even for dedicated hardware, and can be quite troublesome. Especially with M2:TW coming out in the coming months, which will probably have an accompanying influx of new and returning Members adding to the strain.

**Severous** · 06-12-2006, 22:50

I dont go to the off topic parts of the forum...except in this case to follow a link to here about the lag.

I have had slow downs like everyone else. I have been so unable to post on occasion that Ive given up and posted on one of the other forums I follow.

Ive posted many thumbnails onto this forum. PbM Carthage and Selucid campaigns for instance. If people are looking through those now very long threads, which contain lots of big bitmaps from other posters, would that slow down the service ?