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I know on many sites nowadays that one of the major problems is the same as this boards, when the servers and such can't handle the pressure. Just thought I'd toss this out, but wouldn't doing away with things that require real time updating and are not totally necessary, like the Post Per Day count, lighten some of the strain placed on the board as a whole?

From Buck's replies in the other thread I doubt something such as post per day would be causing a strain (if it is, the people who created this board should learn some SQL and Webprogramming ).
It was the queries/searches into the equipment databases which GameBanshee fronts on the various game sub-sites which cause(d) the majority of strain from users.

So I doubt "PPD" would be much of an issue.

Nah, but it might lift some of the strain currently on the site. Every single time a post is made by a member that statistic is recounted, and doesn't that send some sort of query as well? It just seems that all Real-Time additions might be bogging down the system, but hey, I'm don't know much about this sort of stuff.

Meh. It was a suggestion that I decided to toss out in passing.

Every single time a post is made by a user, a database entry has to be made, relation updated etc. The sta****tics (post per day) should be one of the least ressource demanding events within that entier process.