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Wow.. they finally locked "the thread"

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Originally posted by: Eli
:Q

So... who was the last poster? Did they "win"? LOL

It was me... wasn't in it for the prize, though. Just wanted to get it to 10k.

Originally posted by: Taggart
you couldn't even get to the last page without timing out

Not really. I think in the last week, I only averaged two or three timeouts per day. I only ever used the quick reply two or three times.
 
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: JEDI
what was the reason why they finally locked it?
Perhaps because it murders the DB?

i'm pretty sure this is it

i tried to load the last page a few minutes ago and timed out both times

I gotta say I can't quite understand why it does that, either. It shouldn't need to scan the entire thread to retrieve the last posts. I'd be curious to see the query that's used, but I doubt that will happen 😛
 
Perhaps the reason it was locked was because a few people were going overboard with post upon post upon post within minutes of each other

(ahem, nakedfrog)
 
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Out of curiosity, I'm going to dig back and see if I can figure out just when I started my quest in this thread.

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: JEDI
what was the reason why they finally locked it?

Pure speculation at this point, they didn't even deign to leave a mod comment.

Yeah that's a little odd to not give a reason, almost insulting. :Q But I hated the thing so I'm not insulted. 😛
 
Aww, that thread was great. It actually was the longest thread ever. I think that's why it was locked. Unlock it and let the posts go to 10000!
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: JEDI
what was the reason why they finally locked it?
Perhaps because it murders the DB?

i'm pretty sure this is it

i tried to load the last page a few minutes ago and timed out both times

I gotta say I can't quite understand why it does that, either. It shouldn't need to scan the entire thread to retrieve the last posts. I'd be curious to see the query that's used, but I doubt that will happen 😛

Yeah, Fusetalk sucks for retrieving the last posts in a really long thread 😛
 
Originally posted by: SuperTyphoon
Aww, that thread was great. It actually was the longest thread ever. I think that's why it was locked. Unlock it and let the posts go to 10000!

Ummm, how about no?
 
Originally posted by: quakefiend420
Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: JEDI
what was the reason why they finally locked it?
Perhaps because it murders the DB?

i'm pretty sure this is it

i tried to load the last page a few minutes ago and timed out both times


It took me about a minute to open it, I was just about to give up. The last post wasn't even inflammatory 🙁
 
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