Cuk 100,000

[SimonMac]

In fact, the thread count thing is complicated by stuff like deleted threads, and the fact that there were a small number of trial threads made back when the forum moved to vBulletin (in 2005, was it?), so the home page says there are currently 96,485 threads.

But the thread IDs have reached 100,000 and that's all that matters at this stage

I would imagine when our fearless leaders delete a thread, they merely hide it rather than delete so that is why this is a difference

[BrilloPad]

I would imagine when our fearless leaders delete a thread, they merely hide it rather than delete so that is why this is a difference

I doubt Admin keeps deleted threads. He has enough dodgy stuff in his private collection already.

[NickFitz]

I don't recall ever checking what happens to a deleted thread, but the database won't reuse values in a Primary Key Autoincrement field, so the value will keep going up regardless of whether the data is actually deleted or just flagged as hidden

[BrilloPad]

I don't recall ever checking what happens to a deleted thread, but the database won't reuse values in a Primary Key Autoincrement field, so the value will keep going up regardless of whether the data is actually deleted or just flagged as hidden

Work I work, we occasionally have to set our primary keys. Could admin just update it to 999,999 and then claim a million threads?

[NickFitz]

Work I work, we occasionally have to set our primary keys. Could admin just update it to 999,999 and then claim a million threads?

In theory that's possible, but as it's MySQL it would probably go horribly wrong in unspecified ways

[SimonMac]

I doubt Admin keeps deleted threads. He has enough dodgy stuff in his private collection already.

We have all seen his porn collection, and admired it!

BTW how is the next soon to be ExMrs BP?

[Unix]

But 99,900 of them are a load of crap or repeated. Can someone go through and remove all the trash and duplicate questions/info.