[wcbryant]

Originally Posted by lierduh

That is global/user setting, not by Forums. However it will be quite easy to implemented this as a hack through Plugin system. I will include this in the next version.

Wonderful. Thanks for the quick response.

I have this running on a test forum right now, sort of staging everything for my production move to 3.5.0. Anyway, after some feedback with my mods and admins, there's concern about the overwhelming volume of one of the newsgroups (alt.sport.football.college) we want to offer a gateway to.

Is there an option, or could there be an option, for imported threads/posts from offsite *not* to be counted towards the forum totals? So that forum post/thread totals are representative of local user contributions alone. For example, my little testing/staging forum is 2 days old, and has 80 or so local posts on it between myself, and my staff. But just one of the newsgroups has brought in over 7k posts in the same amount of time, thus skewing (severely) the impressions offered by post and thread totals throughout the site. Would be great if we had the ability to clean that up as described. 7k posts is a drop in the well when I move this over to my production side. But even over there, over the course of a year, this could add up very quickly.

Also, is a pruning option feasible? I seem to recall this came up elsewhere in the thread, but if it was, I just missed it browsing back through. I would love to see the option of making imported threads 'decay' after X days, and/or the option to limit the number of posts in one of the forums to Y, where everything older falls off. Either way, with the option (ideally) to make threads that local users have participated in exempt, for the sake of maintaining a relevant and meaningful history.

Just tossing these things out there. The extension is outstanding as-is, and my staff is ecstatic about it. Thanks so much for putting it together, and offering the support you do.