Planetsuzy Problems - Please Panic Here!

[The_CyMeriaN]

I totally agree with what's being said here.
If you're going to have power, you might as well use it for good resolutions.

But yes, it takes an incredible effort to tidy up all this mess.

It's also a very good idea to promote volunteers, while checking their ability to get involved, of course. In short, all this can't be done in a few weeks, but rather over several months.

Originally Posted by BooBootheBear

Well aware of that, and from your keyboard to God's eyes. That's also why I suggested that if keeping all those dead posts (and really they are only of use to people like me who like to trace the origins of scenes, so how many of us would actually miss having day to day access?) moving the dead posts to a separate read only forum might solve many load problems the active forum is suffering through. All those 502 and 504 errors are basically a failure of connection in the coding. Lighten the load and they might resolve themselves.
Also, migrating the dead posts sections gives you the opportunity for a dry run that, if it doesn't work, worse case scenario, you lose all the dead threads and the forum is that much lighter anyway.

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The only other option would be to close it all scrap it all and start again clean.