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Offline mixit

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Random Chat Pruning
« on: July 24, 2009, 11:51:50 am »
This is an observation rather than a whinge.

I was just wondering about the fact that random chat messages seem to disappear after a relatively short period of time. I appreciate that its important to keep the clutter at bay but today was the 3rd time in a couple of weeks that I’ve searched for something I know was in there and its gone. The last messages are dated June 30th which I assume means they’re pruned after some 3 weeks or so.
Is there any chance that this time scale can be extended or is it really necessary for maintaining good bandwidth?

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Re: Random Chat Pruning
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2009, 11:57:49 am »
another forum i use has a similar system, works very well. but i agree some threads hold valueable information, VZI forums get round the deletion by having a cool threads area where the best/busiest get shoved/archived

not sure how they determine what goes in though

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Re: Random Chat Pruning
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2009, 03:09:28 pm »
We normally keeping things in random for upto three weeks. For us to start keeping some topics will difficult and will require a lot of extra work so at present that's not going to happen TBH.

If you ever see a topic you think some be kept then let us know.  :happy2: