Hi pete, I was wondering if we could speed up our forum by putting an expiry time on un-used accounts. AVSIM have done this with 90 days as the limit.
No rant, Dan

i would say if anything needs to be deleted its old photos and screenshots, i know a number of forums use a system where by an image which is 6 months old is deleted. Dont know if you have any way to do that with this forum Pete?

I have a feeling that photos and screenshots to get deleted after a certain amount of time. I've tried to dig up old screenshots and found them gone on several occasions.

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Paul. It's quite possible that this was not done intentionally. Unless you upload the images using files names unique to you it's all too easy for them to be overwritten. I've actually done this myself by accident & as one of the old regulars was suitably embarrassed.

Since then I've used a special prefix & file naming formula for all images I upload to this site. Hopefully it would now be almost impossible for this to happen again but you never know.

Pete, how about deleting old accounts that havn't been used at all?

for example, the only reason I can't use just plain 'Andrew' for my display name is because there's already an account with that name that's almost 2 years old, but doesn't have any posts at all

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=forum;action=viewprofile;u...

I highly doubt that person is gonna come back and use that account

Doug is right. The only option is to delete everything over a certain period - & that means users too.

& I value the Yabb forum for when I need it - even though I may only visit it once every 2 years. If my account was gone I would be annoyed & consider it a bad way to run a forum.

2 years may be a long time for a young guy like Dan - but for old fogies like Doug & I - 2 years is like 2 months.

I don't find these forums slow. If you do - have you tried a tracert?

i know VB boards delete pictures from posts over time, but i find that extremly annoying. . .especially if it is something like a tutrorial you are trying to see

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'tracert' is TRACE ROUTE from one network computer to another. In windows you can do this by going to Start - Run & type 'tracert www.whateversite.com' ... & watch the screen

Any '*' or 'timed out' means there is a jam at that point. The internet is very much like a real highway - with occasional traffic problems along the way. The main difference is the Net communicates at faster than lightning speed (you can connect to a server 12,000 miles away in seconds) but you still get slow points along the way & tracert enables you to see where these problem points are.

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That would be a good option - but this version of YABB (& it's the latest version) doesn't have this option.