can't reply to an archived message?

[dolph]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=980505&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=arc

why not?

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: dolph
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=38&threadid=980505&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=arc

why not?

Because they are "Archived"

 

[SinfulWeeper]

But the real question is why was it archived so quickly?

 

[Jason Clark]

Quickly? 45 days is not quick.

 

[Lord Evermore]

But it's good to be able to bring up old topics months later. Heck, maybe it'd reduce the forum load if we just kept every recurring topic going in one single thread. Or at least just mean fewer topics having to be stored separately.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
But it's good to be able to bring up old topics months later. Heck, maybe it'd reduce the forum load if we just kept every recurring topic going in one single thread. Or at least just mean fewer topics having to be stored separately.

People repost things that are 3 hours old, much less 45 days.

 

[SinfulWeeper]

My call would be for a 90-120 day limit before archiving them.
But I don't run the site

 

[Haircut]

Originally posted by: SinfulWeeper
My call would be for a 90-120 day limit before archiving them.
But I don't run the site

There are over 22000 threads in Off Topic as it is, if Zuni allowed this to get much higher then it would just cause the database servers a lot of extra work having to sort a bigger set of threads, thus slowing the site down.

 

[Jason Clark]

45 days is it, we aren't changing it. It keeps the main messages table smaller and faster. You can still search archives, more than enough.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Zuni
45 days is it, we aren't changing it. It keeps the main messages table smaller and faster. You can still search archives, more than enough.

And then start a thread re-related to the archived thread

No harm done there now is there