ModLog

[botany]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

[saturn643]

There probably are too many entries in that log to give a longer log or full log. It would become too large to store and it isn't required to have.

[MadZ]

To add onto this, why restrict the seclog to one month of entries? It would be nice to be able to reference old entries without having to use an archived version.

[dogie]

There probably are too many entries in that log to give a longer log or full log. It would become too large to store and it isn't required to have.

Too large to store? These are text strings...

[botany]

There probably are too many entries in that log to give a longer log or full log. It would become too large to store and it isn't required to have.

Too large to store isn't a good enough reason.
Is there anything else, due to which it has been specifically restricted?

[tarsua]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

this is a good idea but the modlog would take a while to load

[botany]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

this is a good idea but the modlog would take a while to load

That isn't a valid reason.

[GermanGiant]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

this is a good idea but the modlog would take a while to load

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagination#Pagination_in_web_content

[dogie]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

this is a good idea but the modlog would take a while to load

That isn't a valid reason.

Yeah. Even if it was just dumping to a .txt it'd still be useful to reference.

[botany]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

this is a good idea but the modlog would take a while to load

That isn't a valid reason.

Yeah. Even if it was just dumping to a .txt it'd still be useful to reference.

Yes, even if just a couple of users find it useful, it would still make sense to make it available.

[Coinonomous]

Question: Why restrict the modlog to only last one week's entries?
What is the harm in having a much longer (or even full) log?

this is a good idea but the modlog would take a while to load

That isn't a valid reason.

Yeah. Even if it was just dumping to a .txt it'd still be useful to reference.

Being an IT person, I'm inclined to think it could and probably is archived off and compressed. Even weekly tar.gz files would be a good thing.

[Omikifuse]

Isn't the full modlog stored somewhere offline?

I think that the problem is the resources to make a search in a giant modlog with years of entries, more than the size itself.

And in some decades the size may be a problem too if many people decide to download it(bandwidth problem instead of storage problem)

[Coinonomous]

Isn't the full modlog stored somewhere offline?

I think that the problem is the resources to make a search in a giant modlog with years of entries, more than the size itself.

And in some decades the size may be a problem too if many people decide to download it(bandwidth problem instead of storage problem)

No, it's basic unix/linux sysadmin shit. you log stuff then archive them off weekly/daily/monthly as needed. I personally  keep a year's around, archived monthly (not here, my own sites).

[botany]

Isn't the full modlog stored somewhere offline?

I think that the problem is the resources to make a search in a giant modlog with years of entries, more than the size itself.

And in some decades the size may be a problem too if many people decide to download it(bandwidth problem instead of storage problem)

No, it's basic unix/linux sysadmin shit. you log stuff then archive them off weekly/daily/monthly as needed. I personally  keep a year's around, archived monthly (not here, my own sites).

I don't think the problem is with the capability to make it available; the issue is whether giving access is correct / necessary.
I expected one of the mods to reply to this thread.