Forums Maintenance - January 15, 2008

[Laura F.]

Hello Everyone,

In my discussions with Lithium (our forum vendor) regarding performance, they have suggested some maintenance on the forums that could help with our community's performance. 

The maintenance is to "trim" floated threads and boards (not subscriptions) for all users in the community.  This means that if you floated a thread more than 3 months ago, we would remove the float for you.  In long-standing communities like ours, users can build up many floats that can affect the performance of the entire community. 

In order to keep the floats that are important to you, you just need to unfloat:



and re-float the thread because they will then be newer than 3 months:

I must stress that there is no guarantee that this will have a noticeable benefit for performance, but Lithium has recommended that we try this because it has helped other communities in the past. 

This maintenance will be performed on January 15, 2008.

Please post any questions or concerns you have to the thread on the feedback board.

Regards,

Laura

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