jtr1962
Storage? I am Storage!
Nice to see a bunch of familiar faces here already. Tannin/Tea/Tony Wilson invited me over to help with the beta testing. I'm using my SR handle, in case you're wondering who I am.
Anyway, I had a couple of ideas for the new forum:
1)If possible(and with Eugene and Davin's permission, of course) migrate everything that is currently on the SR forum to the Storage Forum if and when SR closes it's doors for good.
2)Limit sizes(both height and width) of images to something reasonable, say 1024 pixels, both to shorten download times for those of us still on 56K(i.e. me), and to prevent spamming. When I was preparing the old threads for Tannin, someone had spammed a few threads with 30000x1 and 1x30000 images that made the threads nearly unreadable.
3)I noticed that threads of more than 25 posts are viewable only as separate pages. If possible, allow at least 100 posts per page(option in user profile), or better yet, the entire thread. It is much easier to both save and read threads this way. This is kind of a pet peeve of mine, the trend of everything on the Internet being changed to a bunch of short pages that require loads of mouse clicks to navigate instead of longer pages that can be easily scrolled.
If I have any more ideas I'll post them. One thing I'm very happy about already with the new forums-no banner ads! This things both increase page load times while waiting for the overloaded ad server, and make my system unstable.
Anyway, I had a couple of ideas for the new forum:
1)If possible(and with Eugene and Davin's permission, of course) migrate everything that is currently on the SR forum to the Storage Forum if and when SR closes it's doors for good.
2)Limit sizes(both height and width) of images to something reasonable, say 1024 pixels, both to shorten download times for those of us still on 56K(i.e. me), and to prevent spamming. When I was preparing the old threads for Tannin, someone had spammed a few threads with 30000x1 and 1x30000 images that made the threads nearly unreadable.
3)I noticed that threads of more than 25 posts are viewable only as separate pages. If possible, allow at least 100 posts per page(option in user profile), or better yet, the entire thread. It is much easier to both save and read threads this way. This is kind of a pet peeve of mine, the trend of everything on the Internet being changed to a bunch of short pages that require loads of mouse clicks to navigate instead of longer pages that can be easily scrolled.
If I have any more ideas I'll post them. One thing I'm very happy about already with the new forums-no banner ads! This things both increase page load times while waiting for the overloaded ad server, and make my system unstable.