I actually never thought of that questio, bit it makes sense. Maybe we should keep that in mind and after X posts open a part 2....and lock the older thread for new post. This can go way out of hand in the future......maybe
Actually it has been a bit slow for me to access BLF recently although not really something to complain about but it is noticeable. And then I saw someone post “Yawn” in GT thread, and I think that could cause extra work for this forum. Not sure what is the best way to do it to save processor time. Notification through emails are very useful feature and then freedom in posting anything in BLF is what BLF shines compare to other forums.
Maybe for GT Thread, because of its humongous post counts, its notification can be switched off. It should reduce number of accesses to it. Not sure how much it can save processor time though.
But I think it is right to subscribed automatically when we post in a thread. Most people who post in a thread will want to visit the thread again whenever there is new post in the thread.
Manually clicking subscribe will be a lot of work and time if we think of it as thousands of clicks involved and time taken. Plus it will not be so convenient for phone user who scroll up and down to find subscribe button.
Ya, I have seen forum do something similar by using page counts. For example, every page count of 100, the thread will be locked to readonly and a link to new thread will be at the last post.
I had that happen to me a few times with the GT thread as well. Please try un-subscribing and re-subscribing to the thread. The size of that thread is definitely an edge case from a programming perspective, and the forum software is showing several different bugs in handling it that don’t normally appear in other threads.
I think we should open a new thread for GT then. There are still 650 groupbuy lights to produce, it could still be actively participated for this year.
Don’t feel bad, it was not a complaint, just to report GT thread has been sluggish compared to other thread, others can report in this thread too. Besides slower loading than other thread, it has caused me multiple times of duplicate posts in it and I had to delete one of them.