Going back over the records, I have found we archived old posts after hitting a million posts. That seemed to be a point where the board slowed down to a crawl.

The last archive of old posts came in 2007 and this is where we stand now after archiving all posts over 100,000.

Forum Statistics
Total Forums 61
Total Topics 17293
Total Posts 314541

That is still a good number of posts, given the slowdown of bulletin boards in the social media era. Before 2007, however, we were hitting a million posts in about five years.

Maybe one idea would be to take a look at topics that have virtually no post in recent months or years as a possible way to downsize. It's not my call. The members and moderators should make the decision.

Doug

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