Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Astounding growth!

Polverone - 16-6-2004 at 12:09

I downloaded another backup of the board's database today. Uncompressed, it's 54 megabytes. A backup from 4 months ago is 30 megabytes. In the last 4 months the cumulative amount of text posted to this site has almost doubled. Amazing!

axehandle - 16-6-2004 at 12:15

Does that include linked pictures in posts?

Hmmm...

Polverone - 16-6-2004 at 12:18

It doesn't include linked pictures, but attachements may be stored in the DB itself. Maybe things aren't quite as astounding as I thought.

axehandle - 16-6-2004 at 12:34

Hmm, perhaps it should? It would be bad if a linked site went down...

KABOOOM(pyrojustforfun) - 2-7-2004 at 13:18

is it in form of html file<b>s</b>? or just text? I ask cause the htm files I have collected is more than 51 Mb (just the htm files) and I don't think I have THAT much percentage of the board's database

[Edited on 2-7-2004 by KABOOOM(pyrojustforfun)]

Polverone - 2-7-2004 at 17:32

It's in the form of text plus (I guess) any uploaded attachments. The HTML is generated dynamically and of course takes up quite a bit more space, since additional markup code is generated for each thread.