save some space on the server

[Sparkplug]

the forums should only be on 2 pages. the other posts are old and no one reads them. it saves some space and stuff and when the forums get bigger, the server will be slow again so we should just delete the old posts

[Drew]

Thanks for your concerns, but this is a PHP/MySQL forum engine, so you don't need to worry about that.

Forum 'pages' aren't saved anywhere as html.. the forum pages are like a squeleton structure of boxes and buttons and when you click on a thread like this one, the server goes to the database and gets texts, avatars, member names and everything you see from it and in a millisecond it creates the html/php page that you see. So weather you have 2 or 6 pages at a particular forum, it will take the same amount of time to 'create' the first page as it takes to create the 5th. Since the database is only texts and references to images and such, it takes very little server space (the whole forums contents (posts+member+passwords...) right now holds in about 5mb of space.. which is even better than the 'old' forums that some may remember.. which had less than half the amounts of posts and members yet took 9mb of serverspace.

So theres no need to delete anything, and i personally think its better that way since people can use the search options or simply look back at the start of the forums for the whole history of posts here.