New Forum Software - New Style - New Features

[Dan]

I don't mind the look and navigation of the forum. Page load times are pretty slow for me but this might not be a problem for those in the UK with first world internet speeds. There's an in-browser lag when typing text of about 20 seconds so the text is appearing very slowly in the text box long after I've actually typed it. There's also a lag when scrolling down the pages, scrolling is very lumpy and sticky. Actually that delay in the text appearing is up to a minute and I'm a very slow one- fingered typist.

Browser is Opera and OS is WinXP SP2 running on an appaulingly old and slow Amilo laptop with 512meg Ram and a blisteringly fast Celeron 1.4Ghz processor.

There shouldn't be lag.

Lag when scrolling suggests the browser has issues. Or even graphics card if it an old machine.

Try a different browser for me please?
Www.google.com/chrome for example.

 

[Marvo]

I don't have Chrome installed but I've logged in using Firefox. The page load times are equally slow in fact maybe marginally slower and the lag in typing in the text box is far worse, I'm typing blind because so far only the first few words have appeared literally acsingle letter at a time.

It's similar to a complete lack of resources ssue like when you defrag with an AV scan in the background and everything literally grinds to a halt. I'm wondering if it's the advertising bars slowing things down but can't turn it off to see if thee's a difference.

My laptop doesn't have a graphics card it's very old and it used shared RAM for graphics.

I've just clicked on the 'more options' button and it's opened an advanced reply type box which is far more responsive, it works fine with no noticable delay whilst typing.. I think this is the only way I could use the forum.

 

[Alan M]

im not sure how I feel about the new set up yet.
it is all a bit confusing and im lost most of the time.


one thing I don't like is that the time and date of the post is at the bottom of the post so I have to scroll down to see when it was posted. if its old I have to stay going down until I find the new one then go back up to start reading. so far I started reading old posts and got a bit of de cha view

 

[Dan]

I don't have Chrome installed but I've logged in using Firefox. The page load times are equally slow in fact maybe marginally slower and the lag in typing in the text box is far worse, I'm typing blind because so far only the first few words have appeared literally acsingle letter at a time.

It's similar to a complete lack of resources ssue like when you defrag with an AV scan in the background and everything literally grinds to a halt. I'm wondering if it's the advertising bars slowing things down but can't turn it off to see if thee's a difference.

My laptop doesn't have a graphics card it's very old and it used shared RAM for graphics.

I've just clicked on the 'more options' button and it's opened an advanced reply type box which is far more responsive, it works fine with no noticable delay whilst typing.. I think this is the only way I could use the forum.

Okay well if a couple of people are experiencing this, it needs looking into.

Leave it with me. I might need you to do some testing for me. So I'll be in touch.

 

[Dan]

im not sure how I feel about the new set up yet.
it is all a bit confusing and im lost most of the time.


one thing I don't like is that the time and date of the post is at the bottom of the post so I have to scroll down to see when it was posted. if its old I have to stay going down until I find the new one then go back up to start reading. so far I started reading old posts and got a bit of de cha view

Yeah to be fair I've been replying to old threads so they come into view again for various reasons. So a lot you'll see that appears current is old. But those that don't get replied to will drop off the list quite quickly (a week or so).

The date location isn't going to change though. Couple of tips, you can see when a thread was started in the thread list. If it was last week, all replies are since then, obviously. Also, if you scroll to the bottom of the first post as you read a thread, the date is there too.

 

[J Sid]

Dan
External accounts, Integration twitter and google get error message but facebook doesn't.

 

[Dan]

Dan
External accounts, Integration twitter and google get error message but facebook doesn't.

Thanks for the heads up. Can you screen print me the error messages?

 

[J Sid]

 

[Marvo]

Any chance you could set the avatar file size allowance to something bigger than 2 kb? I tried reducing a couple of photos to that resolution but there wasn't anything left that was recognisable.

 

[Dan]

Any chance you could set the avatar file size allowance to something bigger than 2 kb? I tried reducing a couple of photos to that resolution but there wasn't anything left that was recognisable.

That was because you were a new member and in the 'anti spam' usergroup. You're now an admin and it's unlimited.

No **** GIFs please. haha

 

[Marvo]

Lol, you can download your own damn ****