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@schlawg schlawg commented May 4, 2023

Large topics will still drop off a cliff in the sort order after 50, but noone has communicated a need to hamper usability based on age or participation beyond that.

Large topics will still drop off a cliff in the sort order after 50, but noone has communicated a need to hamper usability based on age or participation beyond that.
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ornicar commented May 4, 2023

noone has communicated a need to hamper usability based on age or participation beyond that.

people don't request things that already exist. Before forum threads were archived and limited, the need was expressed due to:

  • people unearthing zombie threads
  • people pointlessly arguing to infinity without any regard to the thread original purpose
    but most of all
  • kids trying to beat thread size records by endlessly spamming copy-pasted replies

Thus, thread archiving and limiting was developed, not to hamper usability, but to preserve resources and the little sanity left in the forum. What is done automatically doesn't require moderator work.

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schlawg commented May 4, 2023

Hamper usability was a poor choice of words, but I didn't come up with this out of the blue, see: https://hq.lichess.ovh/#narrow/stream/8-dev/topic/forum.20questions

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ornicar commented May 4, 2023

right, thanks, I'll discuss it there

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ornicar commented May 4, 2023

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@schlawg schlawg deleted the forum-topic-lifetime-tweaks branch May 8, 2023 15:28
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