Bitcoin Forum Record Broken

[allinvain]

It's getting really hard for one to keep up with the posts.

Yeah, I can't do it anymore... I have to ignore the greatest majority of posts, unfortunately...

Couldn't there be different RSS feeds, instead of only one with all messages?
It would be nicer if the RSS also showed the entire message and the message author username, that would make it faster to go through the messages I think.

Hmm well here you may be running into the limitations of SMF 1.1.13. I run several vBulletin based boards and all those things you described vBulletin can do, BUT (and this is a big one) vBulletin costs money. Also converting the forum over to vBulletin which is commercial software detracts from the open source character that no doubt bitcoin represents.

I dunno guys, maybe SMF 2.0 once it comes out will solve these limitations.

Also what may be a good idea is to create a "recycle bin" section and start moving stale threads there, and then after a certain amount of time has passed either lock the threads or delete them?

[kiba]

We beat last month's posting record. It's all a gravy train from here.

[ribuck]

We beat last month's posting record.

It's not really a meaningful comparison if you're including the carrot posts.

[kiba]

We reached a new record with the number of users online. This time Hacker News pay the forum a visit. Truly staggering.

669 users online at one time on 04/28/11.

[allinvain]

lol is this why the forum was down a few hours go? overloaded perhaps?

[Ricochet]

We beat last month's posting record. It's all a gravy train from here.

And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train.

[allinvain]

mmmmm.....graaavyy...where can I find a gravy vending machine that accepts bitcoins?!   

[kiba]

Broke posting record on 4/28/11 with 1369 posts in one day.

[theymos]

It's becoming difficult to read all of the posts. Several threads I just skim nowadays.

[kiba]

It's becoming difficult to read all of the posts. Several threads I just skim nowadays.

I think it's already impossible by this point.

[theymos]

I think it's already impossible by this point.

I've read (or skimmed through, at least) every post ever posted to the English boards other than "mining", so it isn't impossible.

[trentzb]

Bump...

Most Online Today: 877. Most Online Ever: 877 (Today at 17:12:36)

[SgtSpike]

Also what may be a good idea is to create a "recycle bin" section and start moving stale threads there, and then after a certain amount of time has passed either lock the threads or delete them?

I hate it when forums do that. Why?  What's the point?

- It hurts search engine rankings since search engines will have dead links
- Some of those older posts may be helpful to more people down the road, and they aren't going to look through a "recycle bin" to try and find what they are looking for
- Read/Unread separates stale from new - why do you need anything more?
- A little necromancy never hurt anyone

[kiba]

Bump...

Most Online Today: 877. Most Online Ever: 877 (Today at 17:12:36)

Ah, we got hit by hacker news again while I was napping.

[trentzb]

Just broke 100000

100288 Posts in 6531 Topics by 8534 Members

[kiba]

Bitcoin forum posting record high: 1385 posts in 24 hours on May 1st.

[FreeMoney]

Just broke 100000

100288 Posts in 6531 Topics by 8534 Members

How long until the million? I guess early 2012.

I'd like to see the log chart of posts.

[kiba]

Where the hell did the 1931 users online at once come from? Bot attack?

[allinvain]

Where the hell did the 1931 users online at once come from? Bot attack?

Guests or actual forum users?

[kiba]

Bitcoin forum broke posting record on 05/04 with 1429 posts in a 24 hour period. Dang!