Answerbank full?

[chappie]

Will Answerbank eventually have to delete some old posts to make space for new ones? Or will our answers be banked for ever and ever?

Thanks for reply.

[Panic Button]

Perhaps that's why it runs so damn slow at times - the little numskull creatures who run the filing cabinets can't keep up.

[Quizmonster]

Ask Jeeves used to have two elements...the electronic/computerised one that still exists, I believe, and the human one. The latter was exactly like AnswerBank in that people asked questions and other actual 'people' answered them. The owners suddenly decided to shelve one half of their operation and the idiots dumped the human half!
I had provided literally thousands of answers there, more than anyone else in fact, but - despite appeals from us frequent users - they refused to maintain an archive of replies. Accordingly, each and every one, in effect, simply floated away into the ether when they pulled the plug. So, only if AnswerBank goes on "for ever and ever" will our answers be thus banked, I'm afraid.

[fo3nix]

Storage space is very cheap.

Everything is stored in a database, which will also compress the answers (and good compression on text can dramatically reduce file size).

So, they have no reason to ever delete anything, for space considerations.

The only issue is as the above says -- they will go eventually, so bare that in mind.

As to why the site is always a bit dodgy -- they use really crappy technologies for the back of the site; it could be implemented much more cleanly without too much hassle.

[chappie]

That's good to know. Many thanks for replies.