*IMPORTANT* Private Messages Limit to be Reduced to 100

Hey guys!

It seems like the huge amounts of private messages are the reason the server has been lagging and slow recently. So we'll need to all cooperate to fix this problem please.

I used to give each one of you space for 5,000 (and some have 50,000 I think) private messages to help make your life easier. But when everyone has thousands of private messages the server simply can't take it anymore. So I'll have to cut down the max number of private messages to say 100? by next week.

So please make sure you go through your private messages and get rid of the ones you don't need. If you have say 150 when I change the limit to 100 next week your inbox will be full and no one will be able to contact you.

I think 100 should be enough but if you think it's not please let me know. I don't want to make your life tough and I don't want to do like other websites and charge for more pm space. I just need to make sure the servers are kept alive and in good shape for the sake of keeping the website fast and thus making everyone's life better :)

I strongly recommend you download your private messages first to avoid deleting something important by mistake:

1. Go to http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/private.php
2. Scroll to the bottom
3. Download all Private Messages as: XML | CSV | Text
4. Download your messages in all 3 formats, you have nothing to lose.

Thanks for the update Boo

You know, I'm so guilty of this..Bad ME, SPANK SPANK!!

I don't know why I keep all my messages, especially since I have all the PMs sent to my personal email automatically...so I have them twice!!

Great tip Boo, to be able to download your messages if you need too.

Thanks for the reminder...I'm off to my PM boxes to delete delete delete!!

Thank You Boo,
I for one very much appreciate every thing you and SC does and anything to make things run smoothly is no problem and my pleasure.:)

For the most part I try to keep mine clean, but when you are a train conductor of multiple trains you tend to have a lot of messages saved (addresses for current trains etc). I would say 100 is a tad low. I think 150-200 would work.

I totally understand about trying to keep the site running quickly, and I appreciate you taking steps!

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Thanks for the update Boo

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you're welcome :)

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Originally Posted by jojos_n_kelowna

You know, I'm so guilty of this..Bad ME, SPANK SPANK!!

I don't know why I keep all my messages, especially since I have all the PMs sent to my personal email automatically...so I have them twice!!

Great tip Boo, to be able to download your messages if you need too.

Thanks for the reminder...I'm off to my PM boxes to delete delete delete!!

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you're welcome :)

and spank spank!

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Originally Posted by hatherb

Thank You Boo,
I for one very much appreciate every thing you and SC does and anything to make things run smoothly is no problem and my pleasure.:)

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Thanks! :)

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Originally Posted by rhiannon1891

For the most part I try to keep mine clean, but when you are a train conductor of multiple trains you tend to have a lot of messages saved (addresses for current trains etc). I would say 100 is a tad low. I think 150-200 would work.

I totally understand about trying to keep the site running quickly, and I appreciate you taking steps!

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ok then I'll make it 200... 200 should still be fine on the server :)

Wow, didn't realize it was 5000 - very generous. Whatever the lower number is, it'll work for me. :-)

thankyou!! i just dled everything and deleted!! hope SC will run faster now! LOL

is it 100 total or 100 for inbox and 100 for sent? 200 is much better than 100!!!

Thanks for the update Boo.

Thanks for letting us know. I gotta delete a bunch of my messages, I have like 250 I think. 500 would of been nice cause of all the trading going on, but no complaints from me, I understand.

Thanks Boo ! Time to delete :-)

What about getting rid of some of the redundant threads in the Expired/Repost section of the board? Nearly 36,000 (now useless) threads with a total of 270,000 + posts has got to put a strain on the server. :neutral:

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Originally Posted by tommygunn

What about getting rid of some of the redundant threads in the Expired/Repost section of the board? Nearly 36,000 (now useless) threads with a total of 270,000 + posts has got to put a strain on the server. :neutral:

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I was going to just suggest this too, do these threads get deleted at some point? Some expired are really old and need to go/should go to save space.

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Originally Posted by tommygunn

What about getting rid of some of the redundant threads in the Expired/Repost section of the board? Nearly 36,000 (now useless) threads with a total of 270,000 + posts has got to put a strain on the server. :neutral:

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Good idea .. or they could be archived somehow instead I believe.

thank you for the update, i try to keep mine below 25

I keep my pretty clean but if I go away or something 100 might not be enough how about 200 I mean going from 5000 to 100 is pretty extreme..

"You have 559 messages stored, of a total 10,000 allowed" EEkk.

Okay, got rid of 1400 of them, wow, that was stressful. Hope it helps, Moe.

Cleaning is always good - keeps things in proportion.
You're absolutely right!
Thanks for the heads-up!

I had just over 200, which doesn't seem like much, but I rarely delete anything, I'm an email packrat!

But I'm down to 12 now! :excited:

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'you have 1764 messages of the 10 000 allowed' wowsers

Gonna go start deleting now :)

That is completely reasonable! :)
Thanks

Thanks for the info ... hopefully things start running smoothly again.

I had almost 400, and am now down to I think 7 or 8 :)

Emptied both.

guilty as charged i have 2110. :( ill delete now. sorry about that.

Thanks-will clean house.

I keep mine usually below 10-15. As already stated, messages already come to our private email as well so if you really need to keep it, you can access it from there as far as I concerned. I do trains and trades and usually only keep the final messages from ppl. i get rid of anything Im not needing usually asap. And clean out my outbox at least once a day.

It seems like a lot of us hold onto PM's for the purpose of keeping track of peoples addresses for trades/trains/RAOK's... Is there a possibility of somehow adding an address book feature to the site so we can enter peoples info there and can then delete the PM??

Thanks Boo!!!

PS: I am heading to my inbox to start deleting

Address books sounds like Peek Freans to me. :) Yum.
That's the reason I have PM's saved too.
250 anyone?