# Hosting a mid-size to large forum

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-a-mid-size-to-large-forum/129636
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [September 27, 2019, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-a-mid-size-to-large-forum/129636 "2019-09-27T06:39:49Z")
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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hosting-a-mid-size-to-large-forum/129636/7 "2019-11-23T08:39:02Z")

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> [@The MEGATOPIC: public good, or public menace?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-megatopic-public-good-or-public-menace/85592/):
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> When we founded Discourse in 2013, I had the idea that we’d support topics of any length or size, from 10 replies to 100 to 10,000 to 100,000 or even more! A few years ago we ran into a technical limitation where we send down a list of all the post IDs in the topic when you enter the topic. This starts to cause problems on the client – particularly older smartphones with less memory and CPU power – at around ~10,000 replies, so we created a site setting that automatically closes topic…

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