# Current Status of SDMB Upgrade **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 9, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-status-of-sdmb-upgrade/462854 "2008-09-09T21:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 68
**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-status-of-sdmb-upgrade/462854/68 "2008-09-12T22:00:32Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Not a complaint, but rather an inquiry and possible alert. > > The other day, I went to look at some of the old, recently restored threads, by changing the range at the bottom of Great Debate to “From the Beginning.” > > I discovered that no matter what the settiing, only the last 200 threads would list. > > Today I checked a couple other forums, and found the same to be true. > > My **hunch** is that you have it set to do that while you’re troubleshooting the upgrades; is that in fact the case? If not, were you aware it was doing it? I had to hack the forum display code so it didn’t bog itself down trying to determine how many threads match your chosen display option range (1 days, 2 days, etc.). So yes, I have it limited to 200 threads. 200 is an arbitrary number I just picked, it could be higher. Yesterday I tried a number of ways to optimize the hack to return some of the functionality you’ve noted is missing but even the optimized code brought the server to a standstill eventually. It’s going to require more work than just the simple things I was doing to get that piece of code performing adequately so unfortunately a long term fix is deferred until I can get the bulk of the other issues addressed. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-status-of-sdmb-upgrade/462854)._