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One important thing that I'm missing is how this is going to work on mobile devices? I know we developers like big screens, but the majority of traffic on most sites is generated by mobile devices.

the database does not have any facility to store any field smaller than one byte, and in most database systems, there is no performance penalty up to 32 bits (i..e, reading int(8) or tinyint is not more expensive than reading int(1) (or bit), and usually it is not cheaper than reading plain int ...

It doesn't make it slow, it makes is slower :D It's mostly that a large DB has larger indices which requires (a lot) more memory in de DB server which puts a higher strain on the I/O subsytems of the DB. It's also quite a bit more work to sort 800.000 topics than it is to sort 800 topics. Quite a ...

area51.phpbb.com is running on a pretty low powered server. It's a vserver and the host is a mere Athlon 64 3700+ (2.2Ghz) with 3GB of ram and some SATA disks. This box also runs code.phpbb.com, http://www.phpbb.nl, static.bokt.nl (80 hits/sec), NFS for http://www.bokt.nl and some smaller sites ...

To clear things up; area51.phpbb.com is not running on the same server as http://www.bokt.nl, they aren't even in the same physical location. area51.phpbb.com is on a vserver on the same box that hosts http://www.phpbb.nl and static.bokt.nl though.

Implemented this with some copy/paste work on april fools day. It's a part of the long planned overhaul of our forum structure. We went from approx 50 forums to approx 80 to cope with the increased amount of users/posts. We still had almost exactly the same forum structure that we had when we has ...

You're probably seeing the effects of a bug in the mail queue system. I'll take a look

I have been using a stripped down (pda) template for google for ages and they never complained about that.

The stripped down template just has almost all features removed (links to profiles, email links, links to posts, etc, etc) and it just contains the poster info and the post text. Never had a ...

You do know that this is cloaking which is not really appreciated by most search engines out there? :D

The different template stuff is there so you can serve the search engines an stripped down template with only the bare bones of the pages, no links to individual posts (viewtopic.php?p=1234#1234 ...

Please keep in mind that area51 is running on a fairly busy server at the moment, so the figures at the bottom of the page are not very representative. The page that I'm currently looking at took 1.3 seconds to generate which is not exactly normal for a 'new reply' page...