Forum down for maintenance from midnight on 16th July 2012

Former_MSE_Webmaster

Hi folks,

Since introducing the Thanks button several years ago, we’ve had almost 130 million thanks given to our posters by other users. While it’s great to see so much positive feedback, the sheer size of the Thanks record is putting an unnecessary strain on our servers and we need clean out the underlying record to free up space. Don’t worry, this won’t change anyone’s Thanks numbers but any post more than a year old will have the “who thanked this” record deleted.

To summarise, we are making the following change to the thanks system:

• We are removing the record of which users thanked a particular post after a year.
• As a result, posts more than a year old will not show up when you perform searches for posts thanked by a particular user.
• Totals (the number of posts you have thanked, the number of posts you have made which have been thanked, the number of times you have been thanked) will not be affected.
• This will be undertaken from midnight on Monday 16th July 2012 and is likely to complete in the early hours of the morning on Tuesday 17th July.

This change is necessary to help with the future smooth running of the forums. Thank you for your patience and apologies for the inconvenience.

Webby

fire**fly

thanks for letting us know :T

SimonD316

'Thanks' for the update

Juxxize

• As a result, posts more than a year old will not show up when you perform searches for posts thanked by a particular user.
I don't understand what has bit means ? is this a search we are likely to use with we are trying to find information on a subject for example ' how to get cheap flights ' or is it one of them searches that's available but people don't really use much because it not really useful for finding information ?

jdwmfc

Had to thank you for the post Sorry could not help it

jdwmfc

Juxxize wrote: »

• As a result, posts more than a year old will not show up when you perform searches for posts thanked by a particular user.
I don't understand what has bit means ? is this a search we are likely to use with we are trying to find information on a subject for example ' how to get cheap flights ' or is it one of them searches that's available but people don't really use much because it not really useful for finding information ?

If you go onto someones profile page you can click a link which shows all posts they have been thanked for this will now only show ones in the last year.

Looksguywalker

Angelic wrote: »

Why not free up more space by deleting old competitions and grabbits that are 5 years older or more?Not sure if it would help but I supose MSE is one the largest active forums now.

Why not do away with thanks altogether?

RazWaz

What happens when you try to thank a post that is more than a year old now? Is it not possible, or is a new record created?

Looksguywalker

RazWaz wrote: »

What happens when you try to thank a post that is more than a year old now? Is it not possible, or is a new record created?

You spontaneously combust...so avoid doing it!