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Competitions Discussion Thread Part 10

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  • hjb123
    hjb123 Posts: 32,002 Forumite
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1990467

    thought peeps might want a heads up on this about thread subscriptions, just spotted it

    Hi folks,

    We've been experiencing some slowness on the Forum recently and one of the things we've been able to track it down to is the huge amount of thread subscriptions that we have to deal with, some of which date from the instalation of vBulletin, over 4 years ago.

    In the old days, all users were automatically subscribed to every thread they posted in and it's this legacy that's causing us the problems.

    So, to solutions:

    1. From 10pm this evening, we are taking the Forum down for an hour to delete a large number of old subscriptions - every thread that hasn't been updated for 6 months of more will have it subs removed.

    2. We are going to switch everyone's automatic thread subscription setting to "Do not subscribe". If you want to change this,. you will need to go into your User CP - Edit Options - Messaging & Notification section and change the setting back.

    3. We are considering setting a subscription limit to try and minimise the resource this consumes but we'll make that decision after we've done the deletion and see where that gets us.

    We hope that this operation will give us back some resource without having any major negative affect on users.

    if you have any questions, please let us know.


    Webby



    no forums for a whole HOUR!!
    Weight Loss - 102lb
  • MARTINS_DOLL
    MARTINS_DOLL Posts: 11,141 Forumite
    I've just posted on the compers inn about this, but thought I'd pop it on here too, as it may very well affect lots of us compers...

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=25701277#post25701277

    Please add if you can think of anything... :beer:
    xxx
    ................................... MSE MARTIN LEWIS ... :A ... THANK YOU.......................
  • MARTINS_DOLL
    MARTINS_DOLL Posts: 11,141 Forumite
    hjb123 wrote: »
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1990467

    thought peeps might want a heads up on this about thread subscriptions

    SNAP hunni... and posted at exactly the same time!... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    :D
    xxx
    ................................... MSE MARTIN LEWIS ... :A ... THANK YOU.......................
  • hjb123
    hjb123 Posts: 32,002 Forumite
    SNAP hunni... and posted at exactly the same time!... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    :D
    xxx

    lol, great minds think alike:D:D


    but no forums for a whole hour:eek::eek::eek:
    Weight Loss - 102lb
  • Princess_x
    Princess_x Posts: 2,456 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    edited 7 October 2009 at 9:40PM
    Just said i won a designer handbag. Thanks hun. :)
  • cg1982
    cg1982 Posts: 8,961 Forumite
    does it tell you what u all won
  • Princess_x
    Princess_x Posts: 2,456 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Yeh when you enter the code, it should say what you won and it said i won 100 points and a free designer handbag.
  • cg1982
    cg1982 Posts: 8,961 Forumite
    thats what i got has any one had there email yet???
  • Princess_x
    Princess_x Posts: 2,456 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    No, still waiting.
  • princess
    sorry I didnt mean to confuse you, everyone gets the free Virtual handbag, its after you press play now on that page that the congratulations page comes up if you've won an actual prize, it seems others are winning, so you could delete your cookies and try again, I can send you a new code if you want but it says one code every 24 hours - but if you delete your cookies you can do another one. let me know sorry, bb
    If you don't have something nice to say don't bother saying anything at all.
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