Shoutbox

How about this, the forums are moving to a bigger and better server at the end of the month, so why bother changing anything

Agreed,

wj

hmmm... i dont see anyway around it really tho.  it's gonna be like this for a few weeks... only way i know is change the forum images from jpg to gif... so it reduces some bandwith limits

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Originally posted by Matty.
This message is really starting to get annoying. I personally think that people with post counts greater then 1000 should be able to bypass the limit, reason for that is because these people actually help and prove their loyalty by posting lots.

Thats just my suggestion and I think it should be considered. And its not like most of the board has 1000+ posts there is <40 with 1000+ posts.

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This same situation was discussed for ELite members and the answer was still no because it will not help decrease the load, just increase it further. The whole point of the message is to limit the forum to a minimal amount of people so the server can return to normal operations.

So.. the only solution is.. tchanan.. get a bigger capacity server.

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Originally posted by lylesback2
hmmm... i dont see anyway around it really tho.  it's gonna be like this for a few weeks... only way i know is change the forum images from jpg to gif... so it reduces some bandwith limits

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err...
[list=1][*]the problem is not bandwidth, it's server load.
[*]images are cached once per person, they are not loaded anymore once the person has visited this site.
[*]the images that are used here would be either much bigger or much uglier in jpg. Only those who really are better in size are saved in that format, which is only suitable for big photos with not much detail, not for web graphics like the ones here.[/list]

New server woot woot

<suggestion>
As a temporary fix why not allow limit the amount of simultaneous connections so that you can only view one thread at a time and when that thread has finished loading you can open the next and so on
</suggestion>

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Originally posted by Guido
the problem is not bandwidth, it's server load.

images are cached once per person, they are not loaded anymore once the person has visited this site.

the images that are used here would be either much bigger or much uglier in jpg. Only those who really are better in size are saved in that format, which is only suitable for big photos with not much detail, not for web graphics like the ones here.

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i like the list format

anyways, if moving to a new server soon... no need to change anything, aslong as it doesn't effect my posts