• Quimby [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    send me your old bookmarks! I can unarchive those posts.

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Sorry, they're more like mental bookmarks. I tend to use the save function to save posts on the site that have conversations I want keep to from the comments (like what leftist movies do you like! or what books on china do you recommend?) but then I also search for posts based on the comments that I remember. I totally get the need to archive stuff, it just sucks. Is there no quick and easy read only caching system that could be put in place for posts of a certain age? Sadly my web dev background is all in php so I'm afraid I can't help much. But for instance on an old php based link blog I run I've got a step in the sql_query function of the Post.php page where it md5s the sql query string and then searches if there's a file with that name, if it doesn't exist it makes the query, stores the query result object in a file named for the md5 query, and then I've got a cached version of the post. then I've got a flag in that cache function that lets comments and edits update the query. This way actual activity is the only thing hitting the database rather than every refresh of the page.