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03/26/2003, 13:18
Loading Times Petition
First off, I want to thank and congratulate the HCRealms staff for their new layout. It is really beautiful. It makes the sight look that much more professional and techno-savvy. It’s really great guys. I think we all agree that it is one of the coolest looking sites out there.
However, it was better the old way. I’m not saying I like the old look better; the new look is a lot cooler, albeit a little bit dark for comic-based games, but still a lot nicer all around. The problem is that it is too graphic/plug-in heavy. We don’t need the three backgrounds (striped, gray, wording). We don’t need the 30 odd smileys (they are super cool, but not totally necessary). We really don’t need the “Post Reply” section at the end of every thread. If we’re going to post, we will click on the “Post Reply” or “Quote” buttons.
Us poor folk with 56k connections now hate this web site. In the past, I’d go to “New Posts” and open about 5 new windows with the different posts I wanted to read. By the time I had finished opening those windows, the first topic was already loaded and ready to be read. Now, I have to wait a good 2 minutes for one to open. If I try to open more than one at once, I might as well go mow the lawn while I wait. After a while, I get frustrated and just leave. This is a post-based forum. Its liveliness depends on people opening up threads and posting. I don’t want to do that because it’ll take about 10 minutes for me to open a thread, click to the next page, post, wait for my post to get there, and then see it put up three down from where I stared typing. Much less going back and spending 5-6 minutes editing a mistyped word in one of my posts.
I don’t think I’m the only one. I read several posts in the “What do you think about our new look” thread that were about the same problem. Even people with DSL have complained as well. (I have 56K at work & DSL at home – It does take longer than normal to load at home but not nearly as bad as at work.) A good number of us would rather see the old site than visit the new look.
I propose one of two things. Either find a way to make it load better and faster or go back to the old look until you can find a compromise between the old load times and the new look. In hopes of the staff doing this I have begun this petition for the site to be fixed. I’m not saying I don’t like it, or that I don’t appreciate your hard work and tremendous effort. I love you guys to no end. I don’t know where I’d be without you. But right now, with the extremely long load times for a post-based forum, I am without you. I’m busy scrubbing my toilets while I wait to open a thread and bathing the dog while I wait for my post to be applied.
Who is with me?
First off, I want to thank and congratulate the HCRealms staff for their new layout. It is really beautiful. It makes the sight look that much more professional and techno-savvy. It’s really great guys. I think we all agree that it is one of the coolest looking sites out there.
However, it was better the old way. I’m not saying I like the old look better; the new look is a lot cooler, albeit a little bit dark for comic-based games, but still a lot nicer all around. The problem is that it is too graphic/plug-in heavy. We don’t need the three backgrounds (striped, gray, wording). We don’t need the 30 odd smileys (they are super cool, but not totally necessary). We really don’t need the “Post Reply” section at the end of every thread. If we’re going to post, we will click on the “Post Reply” or “Quote” buttons.
Us poor folk with 56k connections now hate this web site. In the past, I’d go to “New Posts” and open about 5 new windows with the different posts I wanted to read. By the time I had finished opening those windows, the first topic was already loaded and ready to be read. Now, I have to wait a good 2 minutes for one to open. If I try to open more than one at once, I might as well go mow the lawn while I wait. After a while, I get frustrated and just leave. This is a post-based forum. Its liveliness depends on people opening up threads and posting. I don’t want to do that because it’ll take about 10 minutes for me to open a thread, click to the next page, post, wait for my post to get there, and then see it put up three down from where I stared typing. Much less going back and spending 5-6 minutes editing a mistyped word in one of my posts.
I don’t think I’m the only one. I read several posts in the “What do you think about our new look” thread that were about the same problem. Even people with DSL have complained as well. (I have 56K at work & DSL at home – It does take longer than normal to load at home but not nearly as bad as at work.) A good number of us would rather see the old site than visit the new look.
I propose one of two things. Either find a way to make it load better and faster or go back to the old look until you can find a compromise between the old load times and the new look. In hopes of the staff doing this I have begun this petition for the site to be fixed. I’m not saying I don’t like it, or that I don’t appreciate your hard work and tremendous effort. I love you guys to no end. I don’t know where I’d be without you. But right now, with the extremely long load times for a post-based forum, I am without you. I’m busy scrubbing my toilets while I wait to open a thread and bathing the dog while I wait for my post to be applied.
Who is with me?