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#241
I didn't forget about you all (mostly because I get reminder emails each day) but I was out of office for a few days.
We are making an adjustment this afternoon to trigger the loading much sooner and hopefully avoid having to see the blurry images load on faster connections.
I'll let you all know once it is live to see if there is a noticeable improvement.
We are making an adjustment this afternoon to trigger the loading much sooner and hopefully avoid having to see the blurry images load on faster connections.
I'll let you all know once it is live to see if there is a noticeable improvement.
#242
How about....... just putting the fuzzy picture "feature" on the mobile site? Since it's a "feature" for people with data plans. There is literally absolutely ZERO reason to have it on a desktop site in any capacity other than to **** off your member base.
There just isn't a possible rebuttal to that.
There just isn't a possible rebuttal to that.
#243
How about....... just putting the fuzzy picture "feature" on the mobile site? Since it's a "feature" for people with data plans. There is literally absolutely ZERO reason to have it on a desktop site in any capacity other than to **** off your member base.
There just isn't a possible rebuttal to that.
There just isn't a possible rebuttal to that.
Basically, Google shows our site pages as loading incredibly slow and we are trying to resolve that problem. We are also working on lazy loading advertisements to speed up the page even further.
Lazy loading images does speed up the entire page load and we see the load times decreasing since it has been added.
But our settings need to be tweaked so you don't see the blurry images on faster connections because it gives the impression that the site is much slower.
#245
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@IB Nolan
Reducing loading times by not loading the images is such ******* bullshit, dude. It's like not loading all the posts in a thread, or limiting posts-per-page to 10 (don't you ******* dare). If you limit the content being loaded, the page might APPEAR to load faster on metrics, but the reality is that the repeated loading of each image as it's scrolled to makes whatever thread that is virtually impossible to quickly scan.
You are cheating the metrics by making the forum shittier. Stop it.
Reducing loading times by not loading the images is such ******* bullshit, dude. It's like not loading all the posts in a thread, or limiting posts-per-page to 10 (don't you ******* dare). If you limit the content being loaded, the page might APPEAR to load faster on metrics, but the reality is that the repeated loading of each image as it's scrolled to makes whatever thread that is virtually impossible to quickly scan.
You are cheating the metrics by making the forum shittier. Stop it.
#249
Thanks for testing.
It seems to come in waves with some large file size pics loading fairly instantly and other smaller images still hanging up at random. The full images should be loaded by the time you have them centered on your screen.
I am using this section of the cat thread as a test: https://www.miataturbo.net/insert-bs...5/#post1378917
Let me talk with our image hosting folks to see why the speed and download times aren't consistent.
It seems to come in waves with some large file size pics loading fairly instantly and other smaller images still hanging up at random. The full images should be loaded by the time you have them centered on your screen.
I am using this section of the cat thread as a test: https://www.miataturbo.net/insert-bs...5/#post1378917
Let me talk with our image hosting folks to see why the speed and download times aren't consistent.
#250
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Tried that test.
This image took so long to de-fuzzify that I had time to think "man, this sucks", then think "I should screencap this", then find the PrintScreen button on my laptop, then press it.
Come on.
This image took so long to de-fuzzify that I had time to think "man, this sucks", then think "I should screencap this", then find the PrintScreen button on my laptop, then press it.
Come on.