[mysterydip]

Not sure their tech stack (I'm sure there's a post on it somewhere) but there was a forum software way back that would compile replies and such into static html pages when the submit button was hit, on the assumption that they would be read a lot more times than written to. Worked pretty well from what I recall.

[diggan]

Great idea in theory until you want to change the presentation and now have to recompile 3̵7̵8̵4̵3̵1̵0̵5 (37843314) items :)

[mysterydip]

True, but it was split into pages so at most 20 items :)