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Old data being pruned?

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:41 am
by Balgair
I remember a long time back Rollie said he had no plans to remove old inactive characters (above lvl 10) from the database, but now I'm seeing 2 of my old and long abandoned characters have disappeared - has the policy changed then? Doesn't matter much, I'm just curious, it was nice having all my old characters available as a kind of personal history :)

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:17 am
by Hybuir
i thought he wasn't getting rid of it, just archiving them so that way it was faster indexing.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:34 am
by Balgair
Well if he did they're no longer accessible, not findable through search or showing on my claimed characters any more :P Guess the history may still be there if I see them on a census again? Trouble is that doesn't help with the one I deleted ;)

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:38 pm
by Rollie
Yes, there are entries being pruned each day. All of them are currently archived for posterity sake, but to help speed up the database, I've had to start removing entries.

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:53 pm
by Balgair
Can understand why, must be a heck of a big database after all these years! Thanks for the confirmation :)

Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:22 pm
by xpolockx
Rollie wrote:Yes, there are entries being pruned each day. All of them are currently archived for posterity sake, but to help speed up the database, I've had to start removing entries.
Oh no, all of my level 1 census alts that I've created and deleted over the years will be gone!!!111one

I will have to have a moment of silence for them later. ;)