should i avoid large threads with thousands of posts?

[AlexMack]

i'm curious if these use significantly more in terms of server resources

we have a number of threads with tens of thousands of posts in them

[markwein]

i'm curious if these use significantly more in terms of server resources

we have a number of threads with tens of thousands of posts in them

I'm curious, too...we have "social threads" in my forum that are fairly large.....

[Ramsesx]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?358424-Do-Large-Threads-Slow-Down-vb4&highlight=large+threads

[AlexMack]

i was looking for an official response from the staff if at all possible.

also, a more technical question:

You can alleviate the need to retrieve all thread posts by using a reverse index on dateline when looking in the second half of a large thread. This solution was first introduced by the admin of the infamous www.Gaiaonline.com forum (which is currently at 979 million posts - simply incredible!).

referring to http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewt...135383#p771664

is anything like that implemented in vb? is there any reason why not, if no?

[kmike]

As an author of that post referring to gaiaonline, I can say that vB hasn't implemented that trick.

edit: oh, and you definitely should avoid overly large threads (though it's not an official response again)