"The views for each thread thing is built-in in Fusetalk 2.0, but will never be implemented in the Anandtech forums. It is simply to resource-intensive to run a view per thread query. It will bring the database to its knees"
Ive brought this up many, many times...and I dont understand it and no one has given me a straight answer. fatwallet.com runs its 2.1 FT on linux. They have about 13K users, 2 servers. AT has 60K members and (4?) servers. Now Im not the technical guy to be blabbing on about this....but I dont think it would be as intensive as everyone makes it seem. If 13K users can do it....I guess I dont see why everyone proclaims it impossible at 60K. Would you really need another 20 thousand in hardware? Im doubting it, but maybe im in the wrong! 🙂