And that had to do with worsening page load performance due how vbulletin called up a thread. Perhaps that auto-close was a paid add-on, one they didn’t want to purchase and now we’re back to where we were some 10 years ago.Threads used to automatically close when they reached 1000 posts. Then after one of the upgrades, that stopped. I’m wondering if they started locking threads with more than a thousand posts to help with what issues the site is having.