Also known as "Crunch" or the "Crunch Monster". It's still not exactly known why a crunch happens, but all the members know it is something to be feared. A "crunch" can make a 400 page thread collapse into 200 pages or crunch a member's total posts! The first noticeable "crunch" happened around 2005 when all the threads in the Fun Board area disappeared. The Crunch is something that cannot be avoided, it is an automatic mechanism built into Probroads. It helps remove un-needed material from the fourm, and also helps reduce overhead, allowing the server the forum is hosted on to run faster.