Quick update -- I've just reduced the maximum size for threads from 5,000 posts to 1,000 posts. This is needed in order to keep the site speedy.

It's possible we'll readjust this in the future, but for now it's required. Sorry for the sudden change, and confusion!

Unfortunately, this is an example of us making limits too high when they should be much lower. Threads that have thousands of posts are making the database (which is already WAY LARGER and more expensive than a site like Subeta should need) struggle to load any posts.

This is a quick fix to hopefully prevent the need of bumping the size of our database container up again, costing thousands of dollars.

I hope to be able to give more notice on this type of change in the future, but we were hitting the caps.

Curios how many posts it had??

I changed the timeout on our servers from 60 seconds to 20 seconds (which is still too high) so that they weren't stuck with queues of things to process (threads loading).

I'm going to continue working on the caching for those threads specifically because it's unsustainable for any thread to take more than 20 seconds to load.