To think ‘full threads’ should have gone out with the ark?

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

I’m thinking of the Cakegate thread specifically, but the principle applies across the board. Why are threads that are popular and gaining a lot of interest still automatically ‘closed’ after 40 pages/1000 posts? I can understand in the past there were performance limitations on this kind of forum, but it’s not 2003 anymore, and MN is not some tinpot amateur site run out of someone’s spare room. Surely this issue could and should have been Lon since fixed?

To save sanity I think.
I used to post on a message board that recently closed but had been running for years. Some threads were over 15 years old.
Some tedious twat would always point out that something had been mentioned before.

The many WAG (not Colleen-v-Rebekah!) threads always wind me up when you could have this...

(that's pages not posts!)

Some posters can’t be arsed to read the whole thread when there’s only been 2 pages, let alone 40 and come in pontificating a point, that’s already been mentioned.

Cancel the cheque was a perfect example.

But surely, Nugget, that proves that a maximum thread length achieves nothing?

and MN is not some tinpot amateur site run out of someone’s spare room.

It seems like it sometimes considering the amount of time takes the IT bods to sort out problems, if at all.