Hello Everyone,
In my discussions with Lithium (our forum vendor) regarding
performance, they have suggested some one-time maintenance on the forums that
could help with our community's performance.
The maintenance is to "trim" subscriptions and floats (floated
threads and boards) for all users in the community. This means that if
you added a message subscription or floated a thread more than 3 months
ago, we would remove the subscription and/or float for you. In
long-standing communities like ours, users can build up many
subscriptions and floats that can affect the performance of the entire
community.
In order to keep the floats and subscriptions that are important
to you, you just need to unfloat and re-float the thread, or remove and
add the message to your subscriptions again because they will then be
newer than 3 months.
I must stress that there is no guarantee that this will have a noticeable benefit for performance, but Lithium has recommended that we try this because it has helped other communities in the past.
I would like to perform this maintenance as soon as possible, but
I recognize that it is the holiday season and we must give people
adequate notice to take any action they find necessary. Therefore, we will do this maintenance the week of January 7th, specifically either Tuesday January 8th or Thursday January 10th. I will post the specific day after the new year.
Please post any questions or concerns you have to this
thread on the Feedback board.
Regards,
Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments
