Down to you Kim

[bountyboat]

Download times - I am at the point of 'giving it a miss' and from other posts I am not alone. So it's decision time. Do we really need V8's,Dolphins,Bow waves and Flashers or a brisk download of the Forum. Either stop them or start a Forum for the 'Mine is better than yours' enthusiast.

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[circumnavigation]

Tonight, I am beginning to understand that you have a very good point, as I have very fast download speeds and it is like a GMS download now.

Amongst other things, my renewal for both PBO and YM are not being renewed as content as gone down hill as well.

I get my free services through <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.mpcee.co.uk/katoema.html>http://www.mpcee.co.uk/katoema.html

 

[philip_stevens]

I must admit to being fed-up with the "movies". Any that I know that keep coming on, are hit with AdShield to stop them in future.

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Philip

 

[BrendanS]

I presume you are talking about user pictures?

Maybe I'm missing something, but f you don''t want them, why not simply go to your user options and turn them off.

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[bedouin]

You ever tried that?

It doesn't work

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[BrendanS]

Just tried it. Works for me - just a thought.... there are two options, one to turn off pics in profile, on to turn off pics in posts

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[Moose]

My Moose is having a rest

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[bedouin]

Both of them are set to "no" in my profile, but I still see the pictures (flat mode, side headers). Been that way ever since the new style of forum came in.

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[BrendanS]

Strange. I just got greyed out box with red x in it, like when a picture won't download.

OK, just been playing. Turned it back on. Now can't turn off in side header mode. Changed to top header, and no pictures.

As an experiment, try changing to top header, and see if they go??

Just had a search, and seems there's a bug where it works for some people. Kim made a comment once that if you've ever enabled pictures then pictures keep showing, which I seem to have just done in side header more by turning it back on.

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[MainlySteam]

Mine is same as others have said regarding the pictures Brendan - they do not turn off whatever combination of the switches I use.

But is no problem as unlike it seems many, things are still pretty fast out here, even in the high usage times of the forum. Maybe ybw.com is fibre to the international gateway, and of course it is fibre all the way out here so we do not get any possible UK carrier bandwith problems.

Interestingly, it has slow patches (not complainingly slow, just relatively so) in our afternoon when forum usage is virtually nil, so not ybw.com server related, but when local bandwidth usage out here is high. So I wonder if some of the problems people are facing in the UK is partly carrier related from general high bandwidth demand, not just ybw.com server related.

John

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[BrendanS]

Weird. In 'top header 'mode. I cannot get the pictures to show even with the show pictures option turned on.

Yes I'm sure a lot of problems are due to peoples ISP's, though Kim has said that things are slower at the moment due to the number of users <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.ybw.com/cgi-bin/forums/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=forum&Number=404568>see here</A>

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[Hurleyburly]

Not got any probs here in Hong Kong, accessing at all times.

Reckon it's your ISP's guys.

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[pvb]

It works...

My user options are set to "no" for the display of user pics with posts. I never see any. Can't say the forum is particularly slow, except perhaps for at peak times.

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[graham]

Re: It works...

Their seems to be an issue occuring with display preferences at the moment.

Some of us are getting page cant be found message when posting a reply then despite having date slip enabled the reply goes on but the thread stays in its original position.

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[pvb]

Try...

Try posting a message on the "Website News and Feedback" forum. You're more likely to get an answer or explanation.

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[kimhollamby]

Some answers

Few answers:

a) you need to select top, post format as 'top' not 'side' to lose user pix

b) we could exercise the option to turn off the ability to post pics. That would undoubtedly speed things up mightily but it was a popular demand that we enable it. Views?

c) you could suggest I make a rule that only 'serious' pics get posted and encourage me to edit the others out but that is quite a task and it would not be welcome by all perhaps?

c) we have been struggling with some infrastructure issues although we have been fine tuning some code of late and believe the performance to be better in response to a trebling of trafffic. I am currently writing this from the Netherlands and am seeing almost instant page loads at lunchtime, which is one of our peak times.

d) ybw.com servers are sat on a healthy connection, burstable, not contended and right next door to LINX. We made that change last year in response to demands for better performance.

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[richardandtracy]

Posting pictures

I rather like the pictures people post, and think it would be a shame to loose them. Maybe a maximum size should be suggested.

I tend to find my machine downloads the header pictures ('Subscriptions', 'Buying a boat', 'Directory' etc.) every time I go to a new page. If these were to be done as hypertext rather than pictures, I'm sure it would increase the speed of my page download.

Regards

Richard.


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[kimhollamby]

Re: Posting pictures

Header images are pretty tiny and although it looks as though your browser is loading them it should be calling them from local cache. Having said that we do indeed have a hypertext version of the nav bar in the prototype hanger; it has a dust sheet over it right now as we had a few issues when we tested it but in essence it is on the list of to dos for this year.

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[jimbouy]

Re: Posting pictures

Just to put my two pennys worth in.

I connect via Nildram broadband and find the whole site to be pretty damn quick to load. Sometimes the forums slow a little but only when there are a lot of users on.

So it would seem to me that it is a bit like the M25... a victim of it's success.

I would also like to point out that, as i understandit, connection speeds to any given web site can vary from one ISP to another depending on their peering and routing agreements with other providers.

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[graham]

Re: Posting pictures

I only have an older low power PC (to go with older low power grey matter) the forums usually work well enough for me without having to give Kim the unpleasant task of extra censorship.

The hiccups that occured recently now seem to be resolved.

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