| The new server has been purchased and should go online very soon (which will most likely mean that the forums will be unavailable for a day or so during the migration). The number of users in the forum really isn't causing the lag problem, it is mainly caused by the influx of traffic recently. If anything related to the forums is causing a slowdown, the hundreds of thousands of posts would be the culprit, but I'll have to see how the new server handles the traffic before I delete anything.
Keep in mind that even if users have never posted, they may be registered so they can login to the main GameBanshee site and could have even upgraded their account to be a subscriber in order to view the site ad-free. I don't think any member that had paid a subscription fee would be very happy if I deleted their account because they had never posted a message in the forums. |