Is there a limit to the number of people you can put on your ignore list?
Well, I imagine you could ignore everyone by not logging on. OK, just kidding.
I think we’ve determined that you can’t ignore mods, so there’s that. But seriosuly, just how many people are you going for?
There does not appear to be a limit.
That’s interesting, thanks.
Just from a general knowledge of how databases work, I would speculate that the bigger your list, the slower your page loads, because the hamsters have to check every name on your list against the names on the page that’s loading. So your effective limit is your tolerance for slow page loads. Without knowing specifically how the board software works, the best I can say is that limit might be in the dozens, or it could range up to a substantial fraction of all registered users.
120,785
43
Wouldn’t the hamsters have to check every single name on the page regardless?
Depends entirely on how the match function was written. Well-written functions use programming tricks to avoid that; poorly written ones bog down the longer the lists get.
I don’t know how the vBulletin one is coded, but you can’t assume.
I haver professional experience writing database code for websites. No it won’t slow it down.
For each page you view, 40 messages max on the dope, you would have to check each of those messages against a blocked list. It makes very little difference whether there’s 1 name on the list, or a million names. We’re talking a difference of microseconds.
Then the code has to generate the HTML for the page. This takes far longer than retrieving the list, so any difference in the database query is lost.
After that, you will then have to download the HTML from the server, which takes even longer.
And then your browser will have to render the HTML into what you see, which takes more time. But here is a possible saving. If you have several messages hidden, then the page might load faster for you.
I think the actual limit is 200 messages per page. At least, that’s as high as I can set mine.
I did not know that. I’m sure it used to be 40 max. When did they change it?
I’ve been able to view 200 posts at once since I signed up. It makes it easy to keep up with long threads.
Is that a real number or a joke like “42”? Not that I have any chance in hell of reaching that number, it just occurred to me the other day when I saw the limit of PMs.
Peter Morris, why does retrieving the HTML takes so much longer than the database info?
I hope I don’t get in trouble for saying this but you can ignore moderators with ffvb. Not that I do of course!
It’s not a case of “retrieving” the HTML because it isn’t stored anywhere. It’s a case of having to construct a page of HTML on the fly each time a page is viewed.
Anyone answer you yet?
Still no answers, huh.
Woosh, mi amigo.