Old is good. History is what got us here. Just as an example - the Google lists of what happened when are excellent.
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html And the way back machine is very cool, as well. http://www.archive.org/ I'll give up speed (a little, anyway) for history. But I really want both. As for the other fields I would want on a threaded forum, I think you have hit my hot spots (which is why I didn't answer.) And as any user will tell you - I'll get back to you when I see it working. =) Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/06/02 01:45PM >>> Do you know who created the initial idea of Fusebox, before the name existed? Someone looking over the April 98 posts would know. OK, it's useless trivia, but as long as I have it I might as well put it up. You never know what someone said or the flow of logic that took place to get to a 'standard' piece of code that we may use today. The older archives are low on my list of things to do so it wouldn't interfere with the current projects. At 10:10 AM 6/6/02, you wrote: >>We don't have a SQL server yet. The speed of the archives comes from (or >>will) a really funky caching system where each thread (with all messages) >>will be cached until a new message is added to the thread. The indexing >>will be done on a message basis rather than a thread one. This will allow >>the incremental additions. Once we get a SQL box, I'll look into what you >>suggested. As a side note, we have over 12,000 threads and 66,000 messages >>in the CF-Talk archive alone. My concern with the indexing was if a verity >>collection can handle 100,000 or more items in an index. >>The current archives are from jan 2001. I'm getting access2000 to convert >>the older posts into archivable threads as well so we can have back to the >>start. This will at least double the current message count. > > >Michael, > >Out of curiosity, why port the threads that are older than Jan 2001? I doubt >that much of that information will be overly useful, considering that CF has >gone through 2 more releases. Also, I would bet that a lot of the "nuggets >of knowledge" from back then have probably been discussed over and over >again after Jan 2001. Personally, I would be happier with speedier searches >(due to less records being searched) with more relevant search results. I >don't really need CF 3.1-related threads! I believe you said you were >putting filters into the search interface. But pre-Jan 2001 seems to be a >little too old. That's just my two cents that I'd be curious to hear your >feedback on. > >Thoughts? Thanks again for all your work with cf-talk. It's easily the most >valuable CF resource available. > >Regards, >Dave. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
