Longer numbers for discussion topics

[Satya]

The Craig,

Your Worshipfulness <curtsy>.  Just as the "latest posts" lengthening has helped me, I am wondering if more length to discussion topics might too?  What do y'all think?  Presently we have 20 topics per page, yet some boards, like "General Discussion" (or whatever it's called) have many pages and feel unmanageable (or am I just whining again?).

Truly,
Your humble, pain in the butt moderator,
Satya

[TylerDurden]

Might be an idea for a researcher. Certainly, having longer posts has helped me to save greater amounts of text in posts, thus making it much easier for me to prepare more pro-raw/anti-raw critiques.

[xylothrill]

There is no longer a size limit to actual posts themselves as people would end up making several successive posts anyway That would actually take up more room because of the spaces in between the posts, not to mention being a pain for the poster.

I have now increased the number of topics in the message index from 20 to 50. I've researched it and it saves having to click the next page by 40%

I just saw this request, if you're aware of any I might have missed while I was gone, please let me know.

Oh, and I've learned to check the database for errors after making changes like such. 

The Craig

[TylerDurden]

Thanks for fixing the post-length etc., Craig.


Re slowing/down/administration-issues:- From what I understand from other, similiar PHPBB boards, the administrators frequently get problems every couple weeks or so, where they have to fix errors or adjust/increase bandwidth or whatever. Is bandwidth going to be an issue soon, or is that only going to be a concern if the board reaches c.1,000 members or more?

[xylothrill]

Every month's been showing 1% bandwidth use, which I assume is being rounded up.
We're allowed 15360000 MB. It will take a long time before bandwidth is a concern. Theoretically, we could get to nearly 10,000 members before we eat up our bandwidth but that would be if no one uploaded any more attachments and we had the same amount of guests. Even so, we should be able to handle 1000 members easily.

There are things that can be done such as not allowing guests to see attachments, allowing no further attachments at all, or reducing the size of attachments allowed. That shouldn't be a worry for years though.

[feral]

Every month's been showing 1% bandwidth use, which I assume is being rounded up.
We're allowed 15360000 MB. It will take a long time before bandwidth is a concern. Theoretically, we could get to nearly 10,000 members before we eat up our bandwidth but that would be if no one uploaded any more attachments and we had the same amount of guests. Even so, we should be able to handle 1000 members easily.

There are things that can be done such as not allowing guests to see attachments, allowing no further attachments at all, or reducing the size of attachments allowed. That shouldn't be a worry for years though.

I don't know if price and performance have been an issue, but you might check out https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

For lower bandwidth sites particularly, they are quite competitive.  Other than that, they are one of the few hosting sites I've found that have almost universally positive feedback.  On the other hand, switching providers can br a royal pain in the ass, so if there is no issue, it obviously isn't worth it.  BTW, their pricing scheme is actually set on the "integral of (1/(1+log(x)) between your start data transferred and the end data transferred."  .  This takes into account your entire membership tenure, not each month separately.