[bira]

After editing your update-post-counters.php to use limit and startat points, I've managed to install this hack.

Here is why the hack is at the moment worthless for existing bulletin boards:

Pitfall 1:

Users will now show in all of their existing posts totalposts/totalposts.

Eg, if I had 3000 posts so far, all my posts up to now will show 3000/3000 -- not very informative.

Pitfall 2:

If I delete a post, or an admin deletes a post, the currentpost will be bigger than the total posts.

Eg, if to use the same example as above, all my posts up to now will show:

3000/2999

....

Sorry, but only a new Bulletin Board owner should use this hack. It's worthless for boards that have been operating as long as I have

If you want to make it valuable, you need to change it to:

ORDER BY dateline ASC

and add $postcount = 1 before the loop, and $postcount++ after the loop. That will at least solve pitfall #1. It won't solve pitfal #2. Nothing normal will.

Either way, a word of warning: installing this hack takes, on moderate to big boards, close to one hour. And it takes a LOT or resources.