 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello everybody. My name is Greg, Founder of AlpineZone.com, The Northeast (USA) Guide to Mountain Adventure. Looks like this board has gotten off to a great start. I heard about it through a post from your admin on our forum so I thought I'd share a link back. If any of you plan to come to the US and ski in New England, come check us out. We use the same forum software as this board so things should feel familiar:
http://forums.alpinezone.com/
Good luck with the new forum here!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi there, Greg 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi. BTW, if anyone needs help with using the functionailty of phpBB, shoot me a PM or ask on the boards. I've been using it for years...
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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Hi Greg and welcome, I expect U has already asked you but do you know of a way to archive threads? Do these boards just grow and grow unless you use the pruning mechanism?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I suppose a good approach would be to create a separate locked forum to archive threads. Pruning deletes them permanently so if database size gets to be a concern, that's a good approach. Just understand that you can't get them back. Hope this helps!
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Yes I had thought of that but I assume that the locked forum would still be in the database so there would no saving there? I haven't looked into the move forum facility but I assume it has to be on the same site/server?
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Sounds like server space/database size is your concern? If so, pruning is the only way to reduce the size. Not sure if you can export pruned threads, or not. Perhaps you can do a database backup before each time you prune where you can reconstruct the archive later if need be (may be somewhat tricky). The "move forum" function justs moves them within the existing installation/database - more of where they are positioned than anything...
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Thanks Greg, just thinking about future requirements and sites growing without end! I think bandwidth may become an issue before DB size is likely to.
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