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PHP board software:

- occasionally benefits from clean-up tasks which can be long running and would result in an irritating experience. While slow read operations in theory may be possible it is better to tell the users to come back later than to erode their confidence.

- sometimes the database of a board can corrupt. The repair operations (sort of a disk fsck for the board) require the database exclusively.

- software upgrades

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