The Future of CFC?

[madviking]

I've noticed that the members are pileing faster and faster than ever before. This gets me wondering, what will happen when there are SO many members bogging down the site (ie 100,000 members) that we have to create a new CFC (esp. Civ4 boom).

But, this might not happen for maybe another couple of years. But, will the site, in a word, "refresh" in order to extract all the people who left and the people still here?

Through that we'll end up with ~3,000 active members.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Tons of the people joining will never break 5 posts. Having members doesn't bog down the site - even on the members' list, it only calls up ~50 people at a time, not all of them. This piling is normal - it happened for Civ3, PTW, and C3C, and now it is happening for Civ4. I can pretty much tell you there would be no 'new CFC' - why should there be? Most of the new members won't post much.

 

[rbis4rbb]

It will remain troll free, I bet!

 

[Thunderfall]

We just need to be concern with number of simultaneous users.

The current server appears to be able to handle 500 simultaneous users fine. If it has trouble handling the loads in the future, we would upgrade the server or get a new server.

 

[Bluemofia]

What about the time with the 1400ish users?

 

[h4ppy]

I would hope that we don't ditch the old posts. It always seems like such a loss when such things happen.

 

[Birdjaguar]

What about the time with the 1400ish users?

1200 spiders logging your posts for the search engines.

 

[classical_hero]

1200 spiders logging your posts for the search engines.

I think we need some bug spray then.

 

[nonconformist]

If we needed to upgrade, I would gladly donate.

 

[Ansar]

Isnt it the more users the more lag(internet being slow)?

 

[Gogf]

I think the server is fast enough to handle the kind of users that CFC will likely get. There are forums with more than 1,000,000 members, and they haven't collapsed due to overloads.

 

[MarineCorps]

I think we need some bug spray then.

And deny Google more knowledge? Never!

 

[TrailblazingScot]

If we needed to upgrade, I would gladly donate.

If we get a cool symbol denoting the fact we've contributed, I'm game for that

 

[Ginger_Ale]

If we get a cool symbol denoting the fact we've contributed, I'm game for that

That will never happen because of elitism ... a donation page would be cool.

 

[nonconformist]

If we get a cool symbol denoting the fact we've contributed, I'm game for that

Indeed, or special "benefits"

 

[The Person]

I'm sure that TF has the moral level not to accept bribes.

 

[Perfection]

I'm sure that TF has the moral level not to accept bribes.

Yeah, blackmail is the way to go.

Seriously though, it'll be great to have new people. It'll freshen up the stale OT mix.

 

[Dominus Romae]

I'm sure that TF has the moral level not to accept bribes.

TF is not a god. He is only the administrator of the forums.

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

He's not!?

:suicide: .

 

[Dominus Romae]

He's not!?

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