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Geek Culture / Does anyone else think these new forums go way too slow?

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Teh Missingz0rs
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I mean, it takes my computer 10 seconds to even write one character to the screen! And don't even mention scrolling to me...

Fortunately, I have notepad. I just type in here and copy and paste stuff into the post windows. But the point is, IT IS WAY TOO SLOW!

Why don't we have a mini site which runs these forums but in super simplified-o-vision? like, just text? That way, we get the same forums, but running faster.

PS: it took me 10 minutes to post this message.

I hate these new look forums.
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lcfcfan
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 15:33
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took me 5 seconds.

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Shock
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i must admit that the pages do seem to take longer to load than the old site.

Quote: "I mean, it takes my computer 10 seconds to even write one character to the screen! And don't even mention scrolling to me..."


you must remember that that would be client side lol. what are your pc specs? is it faster than a Pentium 75mhz? If so, try freeing up some memory, or defrag your hard drive.


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Dave J
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It's actually faster then the old ones, execution time: 0.0194 - and that's pretty damn fast.

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Martyn Pittuck
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Yeah these are very fast, you must remember the email virus is slowing some networks down, it may just be that one server you have to go through is on a go slow until the emails are cleared.

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Shock
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well, on my 56k this whole website has always been slower than usual, whereas other websites (e.g. google), i havent seen a change in their speeds.

at work, on our 2meg adsl line, the site is pretty fast (type it in, press enter, and its loaded within 2 seconds max). then again EVERYTHING is fast on a 2meg adsl line


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Arrow
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I've noticed no lag or increase in speed (however I got an 11MBS connection)

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Jonny_S
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Yeh pages take a bit longer but nothing else! this message took me 10 seconds to write!

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Ian T
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This is faster then the old one. The thing that gets me is that the title frame reloads every time you move around, that causes slightly longer loading times, but it's no big deal. Methinks your rig needs a slight upgrade... or are you on a 28.8k modem perhaps?

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Critters
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 17:48 Edited at: 23rd Aug 2003 17:49
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I actually find these forums very fast compared to the old ones

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the_winch
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Posted: 23rd Aug 2003 21:35
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These forums are definatly faster for me.
If it's taking ages to even type on character there is something going wrong somewhere what browser and version are you using? Perhaps there is something on the site it doesn't like.
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Richard Davey
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If it's taking an age to TYPE then nothing other than the Javascript on the post form can cause it. Enable slim forum mode in your profile to get rid of the left menu. I'll think about adding a "no JS" post form box for older PCs/crudier browsers.

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Teh Missingz0rs
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Posted: 25th Aug 2003 17:39
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I have enabled Slimline, and am using the latest version of AOL (8.0), my modem is a 56K and my Processor speed is over 1 Gigahertz.

I hate these new look forums.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 26th Aug 2003 11:18
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Oh well, life goes on.

I'll add a few more forum display options to control the post form, the threads per page and the messages per page, but basically that's it.

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Dave J
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Ahh yes, messages per page is once thing this was definately lacking. Also a little button on the thread listing that automatically goes to the last page in the topic is also missing but that isn't as nescessary anymore because I can just set my posts per page to a gazillion

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David T
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Posted: 26th Aug 2003 13:03 Edited at: 28th Aug 2003 20:58
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I've begun to notice some speed hit too though maybe not with the forums, it could be the rendering. The others were v. light on graphics.

[edit: whoah what a lot of spelling mistakes]

Theres no place like 127.0.0.1
There are 10 people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't
Bus station = where bus stops Train station = where train stops. Workstation = ?
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minkus
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its about the same on my comp

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 15:40
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"Thge tohers were v. light on graphics."

These have virtually the same KB worth of graphics actually. It's all CSS.

Cheers,

Rich

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David T
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Posted: 28th Aug 2003 20:58
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Oh it just seemed there were a lot of little icons at the top

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Bus station = where bus stops Train station = where train stops. Workstation = ?
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