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paulcooper
Starting Member
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 Posted - 25 July 2003 : 03:57:58
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Just to let you all know about a new forum that has been setup using the excellent snitz forum software
For technical car, road, off-road and motorsport chat:
www.car-chat.co.uk
Let us know what you think
Thanks
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 25 July 2003 : 06:37:56
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| After the Flash intro (which didn't work for me) the site wouldn't load so I gave up. Might try again later. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 25 July 2003 : 07:25:39
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loaded ok for me, but I would personally get rid of the flash intro, or atleast give people the option of skipping it BEFORE it loads  |
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i011877
Junior Member
Denmark
169 Posts |
Posted - 25 July 2003 : 07:29:35
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On a slow connection (as it appears to be) I would drop the 400x400 sigs!
I have a 300x80 max-size rule on my forum, running on a DSL.
It is quite slow concidering the size of the forum, so you might want to ramp up your line-speed or hardware -or have a serious talk with your provider.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 25 July 2003 : 07:39:08
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| I am getting pretty decent speed from here, so I would not think it is a server issue, mor likely a routing issue between you and them. |
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DavidRhodes
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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paulcooper
Starting Member
24 Posts |
Posted - 25 July 2003 : 08:33:59
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Its being hosted by my windows 2003 server, with a dedicated 64k isdn line connected to it
using ms sql server 2000 as the database
HuwR - there is a skip link under the flash is there not?
Its new and is getting there, slowly and surely.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 25 July 2003 : 11:15:00
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dedicated 64k isdn line
Well, that is the cause of the slow pages, 64K is not big enough to host a website on really.
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HuwR - there is a skip link under the flash is there not?
Yes, but I would prefer that the choice was given on a page without the flash, or like Frutzle, it will error whether you want to skip it or not. |
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Kilo
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 July 2003 : 20:56:51
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Hello chaps and chappesses, I'm the other adminstrator on said forum.
1) Yes, 64K is an extremely poor connection speed for any kind of web server, especially a forum where people expect a swift response. Originally, we only set up the forum as an experiment, where 64K was of course adequate. The forum has taken off rather better than we thought, so we're aware that a better connection is required, and we're looking into it.
2) I'm not a fan of the front flash page either. It was donated by a member, so again was fine in the early days, but we're looking to replace that too. I agree with HuwR, I'd rather not see flash unless it's entirely necessary. Aside from personal preferences, it raised compatibility issues.
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I guess Paul's real intention was to say how impressed we both are with the Snitz software. I've been using Snitz forums for a while now, both as a user and a moderator (BMW Car mag), but only when presented with the administrator suite and plug ins do you realise what a powerful and well supported tool it is. |
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