IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING PMs!

[Mindi]

That date is not set in stone yet, so it's hard to say, but it's been delayed the last several weeks because of problems with the import process into our test board. We've nailed down many of the problems and now the reason the import is taking so long (and failed this last time) is because of the PM database. So we can't move forward until some of this is taken care of, so the faster people clean up their PMs the quicker this will all be done.

[JimMorrison]

My total is ~160 or so. I knew these things can become clogging to a database, but didn't realize my part was already a problem. >.>

I'll clear some stuff up. But maybe, if I could be so bold as to beg and plead in a very unmanly fashion - maybe that limit need not be quite so restrictive in the future? Obviously reducing the slack right now would be of great help and I surely will do it, but keeping it under 100 will require a fairly high level of micro-management for people who are in more than a couple MP games. As it is now, I can wait until I know they're obsolete, and delete in chunks. At a limit of 100, I will have to selectively comb through them, on an ongoing basis.

So please, if it's not too much of a bother, let us have more than 100 after the conversion. I don't want 3000+. Just, enough room that it remains highly convenient ro manage. I can offer footrubs - this is a special gift that is yours to keep, if you post a reply within the next 24 hours.

[Mindi]

I think Richard would object to anyone else giving me footrubs, lol .

In all seriousness, we'll see how things shake out on the new forum before I say things won't change at all. But please keep in mind that unless you plan to reply to the PM, the new software will allow you to download the PMs as a file to save on your hard drive, so that should help some. We came up with the number based on experience I have with forums who have this software (one of the forums has only a 70 total limit because of the number of users they have, others have more because they have less users), and the analysis of the current database.

But as I said, there will probably be a settling in period into the new forum, so some things including limits may get tweaked.

[DonCorazon]

Just deleted ~ 400. There goes my proof if anyone tries to weasel out of a NAP!

[Edi]

I'd better keep a close eye on the stuff Kristoffer has sent me so I don't lose crucial information due to a mistaken deletion.

[Executor]

So why don't you delete those old threads on the forum that have been hanging around since... if you have a database problem or did you plan to do it anyway?

[Tifone]

many old threads could be very interesting IHMO for new players (like me) if they take the time to go searching them around (as I do), as they explain mechanics and other nice thingies ^_^

damn, I got only 2 messages it's sad to be so useless ^_^

[Mindi]

We're not going to prune the post database, that contains useful information for everyone to use and research. I would think it's kind of selfish to say "I want to keep all my PMs from the beginning of time, so take content away from all users instead".

And frankly the post database takes much less time to import than PMs because of the way those relational tables are done. At nearly 100,000 PMs it was taking 4-5 hours. All of the rest of the datbases (users, posts, forums, etc) take less in total than what the PMs database was taking.

[Lingchih]

OK. I deleted 800.

Down to 25 of each now.

[Amhazair]

Purely coincidentially, I just finished a MP game, and deleted all the related messages yesterday, so I'm a good boy today. Only have ~40 messages left now.

Might have been over 200 yesterday...