Locking old threads

Kat, just to conclude what was discussed in the earlier thread:

This would be a very easy feature for any developer to implement into the forum - whether this forum is bespoke or off-the-shelf.

Plenty of other forums have systems like this in place which automatically locks and archives very old threads, and doing them all at once for the first time automatically (which I presume would involve a MySQL database run) would take minutes without any downtime.

It's worth inquiring about this, I'd say.

 

Just to clarify, this type of system generally locks threads after a period of inactivity, not necessarily age.

So those threads which might be very old but are still "active" can keep going. It's only those which are old and haven't had a response in, say, a year or two, which are then locked.

In my view, if there's a thread which is very old, and hasn't been replied to in that long, members would probably be better off making a new thread anyway. More exposure and less complaints that way.

 

Have you looked at this auto lock

 

I'll look into this - thanks!