What's wrong with this forum?

its probably a regular website that part of it is turned into a forum which might not be designed/the right format to be a forum perhaps. or its done in a buggy way or with a bad template.

This forum has flashy features that make it a bit unstable. For example most forums break long threads into multipul pages. They display posts chronologically too meaning you only have say 20 posts per page which means the website never needs to fetch more than 20 posts at a time.

This forum has a live search feture where each time you type a new letter into the search bar it updates the search. That means if you type a 10 letter word into the search bar it does 10 serches instead of one.

That's just the obvious stuff. Who knows how badly it was put together at the back end. A poorly chosen database design might cripple a website when it gets to a certain size.

Then there's the images on the website. Most forums require you to host images in posts externaly but this one allows you to upload them. That might be taking up some space.

This forum has flashy features that make it a bit unstable. For example most forums break long threads into multipul pages. They display posts chronologically too meaning you only have say 20 posts per page which means the website never needs to fetch more than 20 posts at a time.

This forum has a live search feture where each time you type a new letter into the search bar it updates the search. That means if you type a 10 letter word into the search bar it does 10 serches instead of one.

That's just the obvious stuff. Who knows how badly it was put together at the back end. A poorly chosen database design might cripple a website when it gets to a certain size.

Then there's the images on the website. Most forums require you to host images in posts externaly but this one allows you to upload them. That might be taking up some space.

i remember there used to be sites where you could make your own free forums. everyone used to use that for game clans. it was designed to be a forum too so it was true forum format, with multiple pages and posts being one after another instead of sub slotted everywhere.