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I have a forum that contains more then 30,000 topic. My problem is some of my user go back to there topic that dates 3 month or later and add replay. This will bring there topic in the top of the forum.

Can some one do a hack that will leave the topic in its place if the date of the topic is more then a specified period. The these topic will come in top of the forum only if it is bumped by top_topic.

I know it is a hard job but it can be done.

Have you considered archiving those topics for reference? Then they would still be able to read them, and could include a link to the topic in the archives when starting a new inquiry?

There's a lot of things that make this tougher. Let's say we don't bump the topic. The person will just reply again, this time the last reply was only a couple minutes before, and it's right at the top again.

If you waited for the next version of UBB, it'd probably be easy to set up a cron to close all topics over 3 months since their last reply, and then you wouldn't have to worry about people bumping old threads.

Don't do that.

Larger forums cause slow performance. You should move around 25,000 of those topics into a read-only archive. That kills two birds with one stone - you'll stop the trend of replies to old topics and massively increase performance.