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 twoguns
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 06:07 PM |
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whats the deal with the attachments all a sudden???
me noticed that the pics are appearing as attachments and you have to click on them all, having little windows opening everywhere....
what gives. is it just a moment thing or has some one decided that it would apparently make it better.
i personally find it more frustrating and want to put forward an objection. espesh when you havnt read a topic and you have to catch up by clickin all
htese attachments. makes the whole thing more cumbersom (sp?). get all these windows everywhere and it just doesnt flow.
has anyone else noticed it or have something to add?
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 06:09 PM |
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small move to save some bandwidth perhaps?
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 06:20 PM |
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i would say a 'small move'....
makes viewing a lot more annoying and interupted, i think.
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 06:30 PM |
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true, but are you paying the bills?
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 07:05 PM |
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See what you mean now twoguns:jesus
People may get very sick of having to wait for the attachment windows to pop up and not both
Maybe taking the size of pics down some more would have been better if it was a bandwidth problem?
Some sites have thumbnail size and if you want to see a larger pic you click on the thumbnail:thumb
At least you're holding peoples interest
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 07:08 PM |
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p.s. there is someone in the background here trying to keep this all happening for us and trying alternatives to stop the problem of exceeding
bandwidth etc
It's a thankless task I would imagine
So thank you to that person for trying so hard
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 08:04 PM |
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I'd rather trim old posts than do it this way..
THE LOWEST WITH THE MOSTEST BLING BLING WINS!!
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 08:12 PM |
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Its really annoying cause i just got pics of my dub up and you cant see em straight up you have to click on a stupid link
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 08:21 PM |
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In General Chat we go back to August of last year and to page 83
Maybe set a page limit in this area, maybe only 20 - 30 pages
Start a topic area for pics of shows and events so they're not lost
How much space would that free?
I'm happy to start up the new topic area and move the posts that have show/event pics:sandrine
Would this work?
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 08:53 PM |
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posts need to be deleted every few months. if ya post something for sale and ya sell it delete it. there is just becoming to many pages.
i to thank the person or persons trying to keep this forum going
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:05 PM |
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if ya got a inet connection they give you disk space for a web site.
i for one dont use mine.
there must be lots of web space not utilised.
is ther some way we can part host avd???
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:18 PM |
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OK we have 57 pages in Buy, Swap and Sell area
Possibly only needs to be 10 pages max?
I just tried to sen a u2u and had exceeded my limit:jesus
Had not been deleting in or out's. Have just gone and deleted 99.9% which must have freed up heaps of space:thumb
Is anyone else as slack as me at this? Go delete some if you are
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:19 PM |
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Wellwe have to do something, cause this is pissing me off big time
but ile do whatever i can to get normal pics bak
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:25 PM |
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i think it's more to do with bandwidth or data transfer used than actual disk space on the server...
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:29 PM |
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So it's a pics or graphics issue you think?
Would going thumbnail size help though? Seems to be what others do
We have had some very impressive pics on here
Hope we can get pics in some form back:thumb
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:35 PM |
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hey guys,
from what i remember, it was due to bandwidth problems as we r continually hitting the limit. i know it was down today caus i tried. definately one in
favour of trimming old posts, but do they automatically come off your post count? as with lost posts?
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:36 PM |
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i suppose it would, but running software to resize the pics to thumbnail sizes to display on each page would probably chew up a lot of server
resources.
but i'm just speculating anyways, who knows, the attachments might be as links now for a completely different reason :P
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:40 PM |
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Okay, here's the deal - we've cracked 14 GB a month, which is Not Good. Brad's got a combined 16 GB/month plan, and I'm not too
sure we can go much more than that.
I didn't adjust this setting, but it will reduce our bill *a lot*.
Can the people who have graphical signatures please keep their total avatar and signature size to 10 kB? My avatar is 3k in size, and all of the
avatars I produce for people are less than 5 kb.
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:42 PM |
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vanderaj....i'm not sure what mine is but if it's too big...tell me, make it smaller, or delete the gif from the signature
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:45 PM |
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hokay
put your ride on ur avatar small like.
sig & other poo is a wast o space.
save space for full on vw info eh....
dont want no popups again:jesus
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:47 PM |
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For example, I resampled Jim's logo:
Instead of downloading it as an uncacheable 25,139 bytes, it's now a cacheable 5775 bytes, a saving of 435%.
For a 56 k modem user, 25139 bytes takes 251390 bits / 48000 bps = 5.25 seconds to download. Saving 193640 / 48000 = 4.0 seconds off this is a major
achievement...
Plus as the image is now cacheable, the image will be inlined as a "not moved" response in a HTTP 1.1 reply, so *each* post of Jim's
will save us the full 25139 bytes and the associated 5.25 seconds to download. So if Jim posts 5 times on a page, and it's your first visit,
Jim's posts alone will save you 127 kb and 26 seconds of download time.
Please optimize your images and the use of them. If you need help, ask.
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[Edited on 30-9-2003 by vanderaj]
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:52 PM |
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I have to get rid of my beautiful signature
goodbye fair signature
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:52 PM |
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So is that done for me?? Always lovely to be made an example of in public..
THE LOWEST WITH THE MOSTEST BLING BLING WINS!!
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:54 PM |
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xceptions r always made for god
ask any religion
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 09:59 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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So is that done for me?? Always lovely to be made an example of in public..
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Yep, but I don't have any tools to deal with your 33 kB animated avatar.
PS if you have a higher quality version than the GIF you had in your sig, I can make it even better looking and smaller!
Andrew
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 10:10 PM |
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i got ridf of my signature...the gif was 22000bytes or sumthing
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 10:31 PM |
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It was me !!
I am the big bad ass hole who took away the attachmnets. It was a last ditch effort to make it until midnight when I get next months allocation of
Bandwith.
This month is the biggest we have had bandwidth wise with 14 GB being hit.
Disk space is not an issue as we hve plenty of that.
I am pulling bandwidth of paying customers at the moment so if it goes down again before midnight that is all she wrote I am afraid.
In relation to keeping this from happening again we have two options.
- skimp and save where we can, ie reduce avatars to under 5kb where they should be, same same with sig graphics
- or get more $$$ out of people to buy more bandwidth.
If people have webspace of their own then they can load their images up onto there and link them rather than attach them to posts. This means the
image uses someone elses bandwidth.
Anyway it is almost refresh time so will not be a problem.
Once refresh has occured the images will be back 
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 10:56 PM |
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Cool Brad:thumb
Sandrine can go on my signature
The Pixie dust was concerning some people anyway:P
Done
OK should I keep the smilies to a limit of one or two per post? *jenz looks questionally* cos there's no smilie for that
Arghhhh!!!! A smilie for every line there!!!! *eek*
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[Edited on 30-9-2003 by jenz58]
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 11:04 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Black_math
I have to get rid of my beautiful signature
goodbye fair signature
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Nah, I resampled it down to 40% quality and played around with the encoding ... a bit. It has a little noise compared to the previous image,
but's only ~ 60% the size of the previous edition.
Saved 13300 - 7,827 = 5473 bytes, a 41% improvement. Plus it's now absolutely cacheable as it's on our server.
Andrew
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| posted on September 30th, 2003 at 11:06 PM |
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kool, can i have that one and where can i find it? thanks for that :thumb
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