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Topic: recent topics feature
Posted By: emmettu2
Subject: recent topics feature
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 7:16am

hi,

i'm running web wiz forums with an access database and i'm just wondering what are the performance implications of enabling the feature to show the last most recent topics? it says not to do it but i and some of the forum users really miss that feature.

thanks

emmett




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Posted By: God_Struth
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 9:04am
Emmet, I used an access version of the forums for nearly a year with this enabled without any crashes what soever.

There are more issues than just the daatabase to be considered, your hosting, page views, traffic,maintenance,etc. all have a bearing on the speed of the forum.


To give you a rough idea, I had 600+ members who posted around 80,000+ posts, with approximately 12 people online constantly, the database was around 80mb before I changed over to SQL. In the whole time we had that version we didn't crash once.



Posted By: emmettu2
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 9:37am

Thanks God_Struth, much appreciated. I'll turn it on! My forum isn't as big as yours yet.

Thanks for the reply.

Emmett



Posted By: emmettu2
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 9:47am
actually, i can't find where to turn it on now! i thought maybe if i enabled "active user list" in the forum configuration it would come on, but that didn't work. where can i enable it? thanks again. emmett


Posted By: God_Struth
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 11:11am
Click into the admin section of your site, go to Forum Configuration and its about half way down the page!

(Between Powered By and Show Moderators )


Posted By: emmettu2
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 12:11pm
thanks. i've enabled that but it only seems to add functionality allowing users see who is online now, rather than allow them to view which 5/6 topics were last updated...


Posted By: FLATLINE
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 5:38pm
There's a special MOD for that somewhere in the MOD's section...

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Posted By: eksimba
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 6:01pm
You can look at http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=2293 - this post  and http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=2526&PN=1 - this one to see if they are what you want...

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Posted By: emmettu2
Date Posted: 26 August 2003 at 5:19am
thanks! i'm trying to get that mod to work now :D much appreciated. emmett



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