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[Richard Bassett]

Dear Rob,

It's getting to the point that I have to wait 20-25 seconds to display the top-of-forum page/frame. I can live with this the first time but it seems the caching is short-lived and so the page reloads more often than not when I return to top-of-forum within one visit. It's driving me nuts. My dial-up connection usually fails to exceed 33 Kbps.

I don't know if the delay is transmission of page content or assembling the page by scripts in the background. If it's sheer volume of transmission then the forum would be practically unusable across a mobile phone data connection (9600 bps) which would be a shame...

I'm afraid I don't know if the caching time is under my control or yours or both so if it's my problem perhaps you can put me straight.

Here's hoping you can fix it for me!

TVM.

[Rob Donovan]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments.

Yep, I know about the slow loading of the main page.

Now there are so many posts the main page is 230kb now! There is also about a 2 second delay for the browser to display all the posts.

The scripts I used to create this forum were public domain and they force the main page not to cache, but this seems only to work sometimes. The problem is that they create quite large files to download. I have been working on a 'new' forum which is written from scratch and the main page now downloads at only 11K. There are also new features for searching, history archives, only being Emailed once if you don't visit often or on holiday and a few other things.
It is basically finished now just a few tunes for 'Netscape' users as things work differently under the two main browsers. I have final testing to do and then hopefully within the next 2 weeks it will go live.

As for restricting access to registered users, I was trying not to do that as that is one thing people seem not to like about the main 'www.proiv.com' site.

What do people think?

Thanks

Rob Donovan.

[Shaun Rudland]

Dear Rob,

I would love to see this forum continue without restrictions. There will always be an amount of 'PRO-IV bashing' (some of it justified, some of it whingeing), but if censorship is applied then there is a danger that the site will be perceived as merely another PRO-IV mouthpiece. If people have justified grievances, then having an outlet such as this is a good 'steam-vent'.

At the end of the day, it's your site and you can do whatever you consider to be right and proper. Keep up the good work.

Regards

Shaun