[AfterMyNap]

Hey you guys, clean out or download your PMs and dump excess attached files. Throw DM overboard, that will lighten the load!

[Chemar]

Originally Posted by NaeNae

Gosh Chemar and 5000 wasn't a good round number

lol well seems your good round number is too high and mine was a bit low

Doc is defining a long thread as one with 1000 posts or 100 pages @ 10 posts per page......

so I guess 500 posts per thread would be the new good round number

[weegot5kiz]

should we also clean out our profile conversations I know I have a few pages of messages

[Kitty]

Originally Posted by AfterMyNap

Hey you guys, clean out or download your PMs and dump excess attached files. Throw DM overboard, that will lighten the load!

Ummm, Cindy, maybe you should delete the picture of the "blueberry lady"!!!

[Curious]

Originally Posted by Chemar

Doc just notified us that some of the very very looooong threads are possibly putting extra load on the current server so we are going to be closing some of those and requesting that members start new threads and maybe keep post count to around 100 and then start another.

Sorry for the inconvenience but I am sure all agree best to keep the old server up and running for now till we move over to new one

if y'all could pm chemar, jo or i, if you find a long thread not yet closed, that would be great. we have tried to find as many as we can, but there are wayyyyy more of y'all then us.

[DocJohn]

Hi folks, just to clarify...

We don't need anyone to clear out any large images or PMs or anything of that sort. Nothing like that hurts our server (and in fact, we want to encourage members to share whatever they'd like with one another that helps them).

But super long threads made up of thousands of replies can tax the server a little. Usually that's not a problem, but when a search engine is indexing those threads in the rapid manner they often do, it can spike our loads to where everything comes to a crawl. So the easy solution is just to keep such threads limited to under 100 pages in the future...

Everything else you can continue doing as usual. It's no single member's behavior or anything of that sort that is causing our recent issues. It's just a combination of a whole bunch of little things that seem to be happening, so we're just trying to do what we can in the short-term to keep everything up and running until we move over to the new server. And to not press our luck with the new server, we're likely to keep the 100-page thread limitation in place.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding,
John

[Kitty]

Originally Posted by DocJohn

Hi folks, just to clarify...

We don't need anyone to clear out any large images or PMs or anything of that sort. Nothing like that hurts our server (and in fact, we want to encourage members to share whatever they'd like with one another that helps them).

But super long threads made up of thousands of replies can tax the server a little. Usually that's not a problem, but when a search engine is indexing those threads in the rapid manner they often do, it can spike our loads to where everything comes to a crawl. So the easy solution is just to keep such threads limited to under 100 pages in the future...

Everything else you can continue doing as usual. It's no single member's behavior or anything of that sort that is causing our recent issues. It's just a combination of a whole bunch of little things that seem to be happening, so we're just trying to do what we can in the short-term to keep everything up and running until we move over to the new server. And to not press our luck with the new server, we're likely to keep the 100-page thread limitation in place.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding,
John

Thanks for all you do for us, DocJohn. We really do appreciate you.

**I still think it was Cindy's "blueberry gal" picture!!**

[AfterMyNap]

Originally Posted by herekitty1960

Thanks for all you do for us, DocJohn. We really do appreciate you.

Ditto! A thousand times, ditto! Oh, sorry, 999.

[Tootsie]

I'm glad you mentioned this as I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get to Neurotalk. I'd click no the sight in my menu and nothing happened.

Or I'd get the message 'not available'.

Right now all seems okay.

Diane

[ewizabeth]

DocJohn,

I echo those sentiments. We really, really appreciate all you do for us, and that you do it so well.