Shoutbox

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Originally posted by WDZ
does anyone else here think it's too slow?

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Yep, I think so. At home I use a slow PC but at the Uni (with a very high internet connection speed and better Pcs) it still seems it doesn't load as fast as it should be (due to all the images & javascript etc...).

I'd really be happy if you could put an option in user cp to just display the text area, ie: remove the smilies and the formatting options (like it was before surfi added that)

Or use the Quick Reply at the bottom of the page.
Also, I've noticed the new post page loads fairly quickly, compared to the edit page.

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Originally posted by raceprouk
Or use the Quick Reply at the bottom of the page.

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I allways use it, except when I have to edit a post, post a new thread or attach a file. In those cases I'd really like that page load faster.

It loads slow for me aswell on an AMD Athlon 2500 with 768 DDR on 576k DSL

The real bottleneck are the emoticons. Try to add "width" and "height" tags to them. It will reduce the loadingtime (in that case the browser doesn't need to look up the actual width and height of each image and adjust the page accordingly).

Another trick is to use an imagemap for the left panel with the emoticons. So you'll get only 1 image instead of 25 to be loaded. Drawback: you need to define the area's (although this is easly done with an imagemap editor), the emoticons can't be animated and you can't quickly replace an icon with another one whenever you need to...

its slow on mine too so i usually use the quickreply (love it, on only other forum i've seen it on is ipodlounge) it loads really slow on bothe my ie and firebird/firefox (when i used it) btw p42.4ghz with 512 mb ram on a cable connection

Pretty Unanimous. Ive seen it on Lite that (They use myBBoard) and on msfn's forums

the quick reply box is part of almost every single Forum software almopst all forums have it turned on or have the optin to turn it on in your CP

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Originally posted by GiantSpider
Pretty Unanimous. Ive seen it on Lite that (They use myBBoard) and on msfn's forums

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Lite that?  Wheres that

Anyways Dz it is a little slow perhaps some reworking of the page would speed things up a little

Loading slow as FUCK on my computer (my PC is not VERY fast but not at all slow), and loading not faster on ANY (faster) computer i have been workin' on

REALLY annoying

Forums are loading fast enough, only takes ages for "edit | report | quote..." etc, buttons, and when i post a reply or edit post it takes sometimes like 5~8 seconds to load a page... dureing these 5~8 seconds i just see gray shit

My internet not so slow neither... downloading files in 80 cases from 100 goes with speed not lower than 200~250 kb/s...