hhmoore
tired & cranky shadow
I utilize the Subscribed Threads section of my User CP regularly. I disabled email notifications years ago, so this is how I keep up with topics of interest. With notifications shut off, I don't think having a lot of subscriptions has much impact on the server (Rich has commented in the past that processing all those notifications does increase the server load); but I try to manage them periodically, anyway.
I guess I slacked off a bit, as I noticed this morning that I had over 1400 threads in my subscription folder
I started deleting them; but, as is usually the case (for me, with any sort of cleaning project), I got distracted. I started opening various threads before deleting that page (even deleting them by the page takes some time, when there are that many, lol). It was an interesting trip down memory lane; and it really emphasized how much things have changed here in the past two years. I knew that use of the Discussion forums had waned over the years...but about half of my subscriptions were from the last 5 months of 2012, and discussion threads made up a good portion of those. Starting in early 2013, my discussion subscriptions fell off severely.
I can't help but wonder if members that have joined in the past year even know there are discussion forums...and, if not, would they use them if they did?
I guess I slacked off a bit, as I noticed this morning that I had over 1400 threads in my subscription folder
I started deleting them; but, as is usually the case (for me, with any sort of cleaning project), I got distracted. I started opening various threads before deleting that page (even deleting them by the page takes some time, when there are that many, lol). It was an interesting trip down memory lane; and it really emphasized how much things have changed here in the past two years. I knew that use of the Discussion forums had waned over the years...but about half of my subscriptions were from the last 5 months of 2012, and discussion threads made up a good portion of those. Starting in early 2013, my discussion subscriptions fell off severely.
I can't help but wonder if members that have joined in the past year even know there are discussion forums...and, if not, would they use them if they did?