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The stats have led me to look at page load times.
Unfortunately pages usually load slower because of something totally out of my control: large images in posts that reside on other websites.
The only thing I can do to make pages load faster without going to the extreme of banning remote images... is to load everything visible first, and only load other stuff when it becomes visible.
It's called lazy-loading. And as of this morning we now do it. So you might find yourself seeing a wide effect when scrolling through image heavy threads of the images only loading when you've reached them... but the upside is that even though the server will do no more work and it still takes just as long to make a web page, it will now feel faster.
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I'm enjoying the chartbeat site.. Especially the 'conversations' bit where you can see which people have put the site on their twitter..
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Only 2% are addicts?
It's only been enabled a few hours. Give it time.
.... ah, my bad. You meant Quantcast... well that has only been enabled a few weeks... give it time.
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Got 3 suggestions:
a back-end setting whereby a C+ style thread is un-bumpable. So no matter how many replies it gets it slides down the list to its doom. The opposite of sticky.
A "rate this thread" system where we can neg-rep a thread (perhaps with reasons for neg-repping) so that after 10 neg reps it triggers the above unstickiness.
bring back automatic avatars, but draw the source images from kittenwar so that everything becomes more fluffy and nice.
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Only 2% are addicts?
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Playing around with Stats tools:
Real-time: http://chartbeat.com/dashboard/?url=londonfgss.com&k=a2bda2cfba3b183f467df38e54bfa6ad
Delayed but insightful: http://www.quantcast.com/londonfgss.com
And I haven't yet worked out a realistic way of giving you access to the Google Analytics pages.
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Ah, good job I saved the two nice patterns that I liked. But the others were a bit of a waste of time, frankly. Try again when you find a site with better-patterned avatars. :)
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it's not the change, i say!it's a long standing thing between me & those patterns...i've had run-ins in the past on other sites...haha.i didn't mean to be a hater!
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I liked them. Not enough to get angry though.
People are just afraid of change :(
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The gravatars have gone.
Having barely arrived.
The haters were hating, and getting all angry and stuff.
Anyhow, hopefully they be happy now. Poor haters... bless.
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or spiders...
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We could have monsters.
Wild Things FTW!
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Bit techno Dave?
can't we have pictures of animals or even better pictures of BRM!
We could have monsters.
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Er, it doesn't work like that.
Gravatar will assign a unique symmetrical pattern to you. And it will always be your pattern.
Sorry, what I meant was that I'm looking forward to perhaps finding some nice patterns in others' gravatars.
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Bit techno Dave?
can't we have pictures of animals or even better pictures of BRM!
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Er, it doesn't work like that.
Gravatar will assign a unique symmetrical pattern to you. And it will always be your pattern.
The point of gravatar is that if ten sites support it, and you upload a real picture there to be your avatar, then all ten sites that you use will show your new picture... you didn't have to update them individually.
But if you haven't yet uploaded a picture to gravatar, then it uses a hash of your email address to generate a unique one for you.
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I like symmetrical patterns and look forward to perhaps picking out some good ones.
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Oh, and there are teething problems... quick reply, member profile, live topics, etc. But I'm only covering the most common things and not every edge case.
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Does this mean that having some kind of avatar is compulsory? (NB I don't think that's a bad thing, as I like avatars.)
It means that for those who have avatars enabled (to view), they should always see an avatar for someone even if they haven't set one.
It also means that those who use gravatar won't have to bother uploading one here if they don't want to... it will just detect and use their gravatar one.
Would the same effect be achieved by deleting a non-Gravatar avatar from the User CP?
Yes, that's what I was saying.
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If you don't have an avatar set, we'll go and see if you have one over at Gravatar:
http://en.gravatar.com/And then we'll use that.
Does this mean that having some kind of avatar is compulsory? (NB I don't think that's a bad thing, as I like avatars.)
It also means that if you have an avatar here, and you would rather use your gravatar... just set the preferences here to say that you don't want to have an avatar, and it will use a gravatar instead.
Would the same effect be achieved by deleting a non-Gravatar avatar from the User CP?
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If you don't have an avatar set, we'll go and see if you have one over at Gravatar:
http://en.gravatar.com/And then we'll use that.
This means that if you see a geometric pattern as your avatar... then you can either choose to set an avatar here (on your usercp) or over at Gravatar.
It also means that if you have an avatar here, and you would rather use your gravatar... just set the preferences here to say that you don't want to have an avatar, and it will use a gravatar instead.
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arachnid
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i would just like to report that i found a spider in my lounge yesterday... does this count as a bug or an arachnidic problem? thanks in advance!
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Hey V(B) - now that lightbox is gone can you do the thingy that makes them open in new tabs rather than the same one you're viewing (as it is for other links)? The lack of consistency confuses me.