What are the best methods and practices to conduct regular , preferably automated and scheduled POSTS ATTACHMENTS PRUNING and or OPTIMIZATION.
Lets say a scheduled task that does either of or all of the following:
I find attachment pruning and optimization a core forum runners concern and I hope vBulletin’s technical team would consider marking this topic as a sticky , or starting a similar one as a sticky and posting the link here , so to build up a compilation of useful practices and techniques that fully utilizes the robust technologies in vBulletin 5, some which may not yet been discovered by many forum administrators.
Lets say a scheduled task that does either of or all of the following:
- Deleting all post attachments after a certain period of time.
- Optimizing by merging those attachments of duplicate file names, lets say saving those types only once – in the profile of the user that 1st posted them- then their other occurrences would be just linking to the 1st instance of that attachment.
- Moving older attachments –lets say every six months – to a given directory then applying some sort of compression.
I find attachment pruning and optimization a core forum runners concern and I hope vBulletin’s technical team would consider marking this topic as a sticky , or starting a similar one as a sticky and posting the link here , so to build up a compilation of useful practices and techniques that fully utilizes the robust technologies in vBulletin 5, some which may not yet been discovered by many forum administrators.
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