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nopoles
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This morning I uploaded a major change to the Frorum's style sheet setup. If the forum has lost all formatting, your browser didn't request the latest style sheet. Empty your cache and refresh.

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Mar 17 2005 7:13AM
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*cowboy*
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I bet that's one loooong style sheet. Did you make any changes to it? Or just organize it better?


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Mar 17 2005 9:47AM
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Swirly999
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ok sounds good, also cool thing i like the sticky.

Mar 17 2005 11:08AM
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nopoles
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I made changes to it based on some suggestions I got from QuazBotch. There were some really long and repetitive class names that I managed to simplify.

I did the same to the online list the other day and it reduced the page size at peak hours by like 9K.

~Paul

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Mar 17 2005 11:18AM
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*cowboy*
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That's awesome!


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Mar 17 2005 1:01PM
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*cowboy*
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^Are you referring to bandwidth? If so, the advantage of the smaller file won't be for bandwidth purposes but for page load speeds.


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Mar 17 2005 2:01PM
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QuazBotch
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Knowing how many times that member list loads, it should save a lot over the course of a month or two.

Mar 17 2005 5:07PM
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*cowboy*
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Your right, it will affect bandwidth somewhat. But when you think about 9K in comparsion to loads of 5MB (or 10MB for the news) videos being downloaded. The 9K seems rather irrelavant.

It's hard to say though, because I dont know how many times the page is downloaded a day, like QuazBotch said. I'm sure it's downloaded A LOT more than videos are, but, it's still only 9K.




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Mar 17 2005 7:51PM
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holyDINOSAURS
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for dial up users 9k will actually make a difference for speed. my friend Korona is on radio phones so he has wicked 28.8 kb dial up. so yeah itll make him happy im sure

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Mar 17 2005 8:05PM
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QuazBotch
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Say that list gets loaded 20,000 times a day (any pretty much any link you click on NS downloads that list)

20000 downloads * 0.009 of a meg saved * 30 days a month = 5400 megs of bandwidth saved a month. That's 5.4 gigs.

I have no idea what kind of plan NS is on, but my host would charge me at least $40 if I went 5.4 gigs over my quota.

The forum tweak took another 10k-ish off of the thread view of each forum. Even if the bandwidth savings are not much in terms of cash, the page will take 4 seconds less for dialup users to download.

And there is lots left to do. NoPoles will be sick of me soon :)

Mar 17 2005 11:23PM
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*cowboy*
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Thanks man! 5.4 GB's is huge for most of us (My site is up to 17GB for the month so far..) but NS transfers close to 2TB per month.

So, 5.4/2048 is only .26%. So, based on your number crunching, and what I've read about the monthly bandwidth usage, I would consider this mildly un-important in the realm of bandwidth. However, like we both said earlier, this is HUGE for dialup users.

Good work both of you!


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Mar 17 2005 11:39PM
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jack_tha_ripper
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yeah thats gud, even on cable broadband i get slow speeds on this site, well slow compared to lots of other sites

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