george 45 wrote:Oddquine wrote:I think I'm happy enough with it as it is.
The forum is as Eve wanted it.
Once I sort out the registration problems, I'll look into what went wrong with the choosing of styles and there is the option of a shoutbox free template among them..but nobody else has complained about the bells and whistles which have been on this forum from the beginning.
My post was not a complaint Oddie....I was responding to the request for suggestions on how to improve the forum.....viz:- "Put your suggestions and ideas for improving the forum here"
Sometimes you just can't win !
Not a problem as such, George, but if you read the rest of the Suggestions forum, you will see that it was set up when the forum was new so that members could have it as they wanted it as far as that was possible..and the forum was just left after the suggestions petered out.
Speed of access may improve it for you, but as the forum has become older so have the members, and with age has come patience, so they appear to be prepared to wait if the forum is slow loading..and as the member base is small (but select
), there are a lot less posts to be loaded than on forums with dedicated servers which have thousands of posts a day and load as if they were wading through treacle wearing diving boots. I'm on one of them, but I just open another tab and go somewhere else while it loads and go back when it does.
As the forum has become more unwieldy over the years as bits were added, I have pruned it a couple of times, but generally not removed anything Eve and I thought was worth keeping. I don't have a problem with hosting space or bandwidth, you see, so forum size is not a problem.
I think it is as fast as most forums on the internet, and a lot faster than some...though it does certainly have hiccups when there is a database problem on the hosting server...but slowness can also be down to a slow broadband connection.....in my own case, I'm on an exchange with, compared to well populated areas, relatively few connections..and even my connection has periods when it does not perform as it should due to line problems or issues at my ISP.
However, if it
is a big problem for those with slower set-ups...I have no great issues with removing what is perceived as unnecessary stuff.....but there will need to be a poll to decide what the majority thinks is unnecessary.