Is there any recommendation for those of us who are techspeak challenged as to how to use the board to limit the pressure on the board? I.e. threadsuck more or less, use message center instead of refresh, change number of posts displayed per refresh etc. My programming knowledge is limited to basic BASIC (10 print hi, 20 goto 10, look mom it says hi lots of times...) but I'd love to do my part to lessen the load.
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Wolfram - Aug 02, 2003 6:34:20 pm PDT #4479 of 10000
Visilurking
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2003 7:03:56 pm PDT #4480 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Load lessening tips:
- don't leave browser open with automatic refresh when you're not around
- if you don't use automatic refresh, don't manually refresh too often
- display more posts per page
- threadsucking is less intensive than paging through that many posts, but the difference is reasonably small unless the # of pages to be read is more than 2x the number of posts displayed per page
Cindy - Aug 03, 2003 3:14:20 am PDT #4481 of 10000
Nobody
if you don't use automatic refresh, don't manually refresh too often
When I'm trying to catch up in the threads I've missed, I usually read one, hit message center, and choose the next one I want to read. I don't use "read new" very often, because I subscribe to some threads that are slow moving, and wait to read them 'til they have a good number of posts.
Would it be better if after reading a thread (I'm set up for 30 posts per page), I hit my browser's back button to get to message center and choose the next thread, than hitting our in-thread "message center" link?
Jon B. - Aug 03, 2003 6:01:46 am PDT #4482 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Would it be better if after reading a thread (I'm set up for 30 posts per page), I hit my browser's back button to get to message center and choose the next thread, than hitting our in-thread "message center" link?
When you hit "back" is the page refreshed anyway? It is for me. If so, then it doesn't make a difference. If it is somehow cached, and the page looks identical to when you viewed it last (e.g. same number of unread messages, same quote, etc.), then it would be helpful to hit "back".
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2003 6:33:39 am PDT #4483 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When you hit "back" is the page refreshed anyway? It is for me
Depends on the browser. For IE on Windows, it seems to always be. For Opera on Windows, nope.
Jon B. - Aug 03, 2003 6:38:42 am PDT #4484 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
For Mozilla, it seems to always refresh as well.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 03, 2003 6:56:18 am PDT #4485 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Opera on Mac also refreshes.
Cindy - Aug 03, 2003 7:14:01 am PDT #4486 of 10000
Nobody
I have ie on Windows XP. I haven't noticed whether or not it's refreshed or not.
DCJensen - Aug 03, 2003 7:58:14 am PDT #4487 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Perhaps until we have another solution finished, we could raise the minimum refresh to 10 minutes.
Also, since at the phoenix we are more text based than previous incarnations of the Buffistas, perhaps we should default the "Number of posts displayed on a page" at something like 25 or higher.
What is the default? I immediately set mine at 100 when we moved in.
Jon B. - Aug 03, 2003 10:34:53 am PDT #4488 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The default is 10 posts per page.