My client is dedicating a set of forums to a specific topic, and has asked me to look into the feasibility of creating one sub-forum per sub-topic. I pushed back initially, and then he talked me into looking into it further. Later when I did the math, I realized this would entail 100,000+ sub-forums!
Clearly that is far, far beyond the capabilities of a single vBulletin instance, but could someone help me understand exactly why that is?
Second question: In a bizarre, imaginary world where such an uber vBulletin site were actually created somehow, what might it look like? Ten or more separate vB instances, bridged by user-related tables?
Third question: Since this project has zero funding (at this early juncture) and only one developer (myself) I am probably going to steer him towards a different solution involving thread prefixes, tags, a strong moderator community and perhaps a little search engine customization, if I can manage it. Does that sound like the best approach? To be honest, I haven't played around with prefixes or tags yet, but it looks like they will help somewhat.
Thanks in advance.
Clearly that is far, far beyond the capabilities of a single vBulletin instance, but could someone help me understand exactly why that is?
Second question: In a bizarre, imaginary world where such an uber vBulletin site were actually created somehow, what might it look like? Ten or more separate vB instances, bridged by user-related tables?
Third question: Since this project has zero funding (at this early juncture) and only one developer (myself) I am probably going to steer him towards a different solution involving thread prefixes, tags, a strong moderator community and perhaps a little search engine customization, if I can manage it. Does that sound like the best approach? To be honest, I haven't played around with prefixes or tags yet, but it looks like they will help somewhat.
Thanks in advance.
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