AtariAge Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 14 minutes ago, tonyv said: It seems like Clubs or private topics would be good choices for such conversations going forward. We do have a slew of private development forums already. Sometimes private conversations will end up morphing into creation of a private forum. Especially once it's helpful to have multiple threads to discuss various aspects of a project, plus attachments are easier to deal with (they can be kept in the first post of a thread to make them easier to find and update). Even though I only moved my forum from 3.4.8 to 4.4.4 a week ago, clubs are already being used for this purpose as well. But I suspect that private conversations will continue to reign supreme, since they are trivially easy to start and keep tabs on. ..Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David.. Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 13 hours ago, AtariAge said: Yes, it does add to the size of the database, but that's dwarfed by the size of the forum posts (over four million posts). A better solution would be to remove PMs that haven’t had a reply within x months/years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariAge Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 44 minutes ago, David.. said: A better solution would be to remove PMs that haven’t had a reply within x months/years. I still wouldn't do this, because I periodically need to reference an old conversation that hasn't had a reply in years. ..Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergey_SV Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 56 minutes ago, David.. said: A better solution would be to remove PMs that haven’t had a reply within x months/years. I think the better solution would be make easier to users to delete the old conversation by themselves. At the moment there is no way to sort the conversations from old-to-new (and without pagination there is no way to scroll to the old times), and no way to multiselect the conversations from the search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawPi Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 11 minutes ago, Sergey_SV said: (and without pagination there is no way to scroll to the old times) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariAge Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 19 minutes ago, Sergey_SV said: I think the better solution would be make easier to users to delete the old conversation by themselves. Agreed. And if you're worried about the size of the database, you can also set a reasonable limit on the number of conversations users can have. Better to let them delete conversations they no longer need, rather than arbitrarily doing so. ..Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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