I did a little research, and that thread could cause a technical problem with this older version of SMF that we're running. Mods might wanna consider locking the thread and continuing it in a new one, the longer a single thread is the harder the forum (And back end DB) have to work to process it, some doco I found recommended a cap of 1k posts per a single thread...
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293441.0"Addition #3 (July 1st): Cap the length of your threads This is one of those things that ought to be a setting - even vBulletin is known for choking on large threads, look up rpg.net's motivational poster history. Large threads mean there is a large result set for further instructions in the query to prune from, and if a thread is too disproportionally large, even browsing the thread will result in using table scans instead of the index - a very bad situation indeed.
30k is what I use for Elliquiy, and Ben uses 25k for Red and White Kop. Keep in mind, though, that we are both running finely tuned dedicated servers with two hard disks, two cores, and 4gb of RAM. You may want to cap thread length closer to 1k posts."
