If you're a group administrator, it's a good idea to periodically take a look at the storage page in the group administration area. This tells you how large your group is, both in terms of how much space it is taking up on disk, as well as detailing things like how many pages are in the group, how many old versions are stored, and so on.
Why keep an eye on this? Doing so can help you both watch out for unexpected uses or problems, and also keep the overall system running as smooth as possible.
For example, a sudden and sustained jump in the number of older versions of pages (when there isn't a huge change in activity that you're aware of) may be a clue that a "spam robot" is automatically posting garbage to one or more of your pages - take a quick peek at the recent changes of each forum (main group and projects) to see if this is the case. Are your users suddenly attaching multiple large attachments? Again, if this is a change in normal behavior, you may want to investigate further.
If you're not using certain data that is being collected, it makes sense to clean it up, which will not only keep the size of your group down, but also give a bit of a speed boost to many operations (like any other system, the more stuff that ProjectForum has to keep track of, the longer certain things will take). Are older versions of pages important to you? If not, periodically remove them. Do you even look at user activity logs? If not, make sure to clean them up, and think about just turning them off altogether.
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