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Littlebreeze
Member
05-29-2003
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 2:32 pm
I post quite a bit in the game threads. If I happen to be the only person posting in there, the load time is slower than before but not bad. But, as soon as a second person enters and starts playing, the load time slows waaaaaaay down and it's very frustrating and difficult to play with/against that person. When a third person enters and starts playing, forget it. Loading becomes so extremely slow that it's defeating to the games. It doesn't appear to be reflective of the number of people using the board "overall". Loading in the game threads doesn't slow until another person enters and begins playing which causes an immediate slowing. This was never a problem on the old board. Any idea of why this is happening on the new board? Is it fixable?
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Littlebreeze
Member
05-29-2003
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 2:59 pm
Should have specified above load time slowdown is on computer. I have WebTV at home but I'm on computer all day here at work. Why am I playing games at work? I can't tell you or I'd have to kill you. 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 3:37 pm
As far as I know nobody has ever complained about Weiner having dirty balls. Does this mean Weiner is not Adven?
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 4:02 pm
No, Juju, that means Weiner is not Neil and Adven is not Glenn. Or is that the other way around? How does Rabbit fit into all of this?
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Admin
Board Administrator
07-07-2000
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 4:07 pm
I must agree with Yankee, the internet is slow and I've received multiple virus infected emails the last few days. Littlebreeze: It's possible your proxy server at work now has to store all the new pages, because the URL's have changed. On the old site, the proxy server was caching most of the pages and data, so it could serve it to you faster, but now it's all new, so it can't give you a cached version. Are the other players you're playing against having the same problems?
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Littlebreeze
Member
05-29-2003
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 4:32 pm
Neil.... stand back because you're about to be assaulted by my techno-ignorance. What's a proxy server? Caching before, no caching now? Are you speaking a foreign language to me? After I read your response in the Questions to Moderator Thread, which was after I made the post in this thread, I began to wonder if the problem could be in my computer. I have no idea how computers work. I know how to do what I have to do on it and that's it. I'm not sure if others in games are having the same problem because, when it slows down, I can't keep up to play so I leave. If it is my computer, is there anything I can do to fix it? That would be entertaining, me trying to do anything technical, but I'd try. I did fix my cable TV reception a few nights ago by wiggling a connection behind the set. Thanks, Neil, for giving even more of your time. After the long, long hours of hard work you just put in creating this beautiful new home for us, I'm sorry if I've added even one more second of aggravation.
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Colossus
Member
10-23-2003
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 4:39 pm
Does the "New" button on the far left represent a time frame in which the poster has posted? Or is this just "kind of new" stuff, but you might have already read it?
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Admin
Board Administrator
07-07-2000
| Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 7:16 pm
Colossus Cookie-based "NEW" icons: When enabled, Discus will set cookies on each visitor's machine to record the last access from that machine. Upon loading a page with topics or subtopics, these cookies will be compared against the actual modification times of the items. If the items were modified after the user's last visit, JavaScript is used to display a special icon (by default, a yellow "NEW" indication) next to the recently updated thread. Littlebreeze There's no aggravation, I just want to make sure everyone is happy and not being left behind! Talk to your tech support at work (I guess you don't want to tell them you're coming here during work hours though...hmmm..) Good things to try to speed up your computer is increasing your page file (Read some of the Microsoft, assuming you're using Microsoft, help files to know how to do this stuff), clearing your temp files, defragging your hard drive, checking for a virus, using a product like Ad-Aware to check for spyware that might be slowing you down. I know this is Chinese to you, but at least you can read up on this, or tell this to your tech support guy or neighbour or whoever may help you with your computer.
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Littlebreeze
Member
05-29-2003
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 4:32 am
Neil.... thank you for your advice! You're right, it is Chinese to me but I'll take all the points you mentioned to someone at work and see if I can get some covert help. We do have Microsoft so I'll read up on some tutorials looking for the terms you mentioned. Defragging? Sounds like what the computer lobe of my brain could use. Thanks again, Neil, for your time and seemingly endless patience!
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Bigd
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:43 am
So, Admin, let's see if I understand your answer to Colossus. I have my home page set to the general discussions area, everytime I click on my home page every thread on the general discussion page that has new posts will display a "new" icon???? If that is what you said I am L O V I N it!!!!!! Thanks!
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Admin
Board Administrator
07-07-2000
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 6:22 pm
Bigd Yes, but when you turn off your computer and leave, and then come back, the arrows will be gone...unless of course the threads have been posted to since your last visit. For example: you come to the TVCH, see 5 threads with new posts. You only read 2 of them. You turn off your computer and come back an hour later. Nobody has posted since you were last here, (pretend it's a slow day ) The arrows are all gone now, even though there are 3 threads you didn't read, the arrows are all gone because you had the chance to read them, but didn't. If someone else did happen to post into one of those 3 while you were gone, that one thread will have an arrow. I believe this is the way they work, but I might be wrong. I didn't design them, just turned them on. I'm still trying to interprete the explanation posted above too! hehehe.. I'm only human too!
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Moderator
Moderator
06-30-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 7:13 pm
Notice for New Messages Users The new messages feature has been altered in two major ways: 1). All topics will now be automatically "expanded" so that you do not have to click the box to the left to view the messages. 2). The date/time stamp will appear next to the posts as it did previously. Please post if you notice any problems with this feature. Thanks! ModIL
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:06 pm
Well that sure fixed us Webtv users! Now I'm getting This Page Too Big To Be Shown Completely CRAPOLA <bummer>
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:13 pm
Also, I posted this dilemna somewhere a day or two ago, and I don't know if anyone besides me is having the same problem, but when I check for new messages sometimes I want to go back and check the messages for say the last 2 hours. Then when I move down to get the results, it defaults to 'registered user' and the new messages since I last checked for new messages feature. In other words it won't let me do the last three days or the last two hours at all.
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Moderator
Moderator
06-30-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:23 pm
Urgrace, do you think that is because there were so many messages to view that you got that message? Unfortunately, the "old" new messages options (no-tree view) is no longer available on this version of the software, so this is what we have to work with. Can you play with it for a while and see if it is just because of the number of messages? As for the second issue, does it not let you click the button beside "recent post"? Can you describe more what the problem is?
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Admin
Board Administrator
07-07-2000
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:39 pm
It sounds like the form is resetting itself for some reason and giving you a cached version. Maybe try hitting refresh?
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 8:40 pm
Urgrace, have you tried using new messages by individual topics instead of favorites or all topics? This should reduce the total number of new messages to view but would require you to repeat the search for each topic you want to look at. Unfortunately with the amount of activity on the board recently, I'm afraid searching all topics is going to result in Page Too Big for you. On your second situation, I was able to select by number of days/hours/minutes search using the WebTV emulator just fine. I'm not sure why you're having trouble with that feature. The only other suggestion I can think of is to change your favorites setup to include several less active topics for one search, then select the few more active topics one at a time. Hope this helps.
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:12 pm
Okay, the first time I tried it there were a LOT of messages, but then I refreshed and it is fine - BUT if a person cannot get here every day that could be a problem each time. I haven't had This Page Too Big come up on me in a very long time, so it kind of threw me! I've navigated around to try all the new features offered, and several times. I can click recent post and adjust time and amount of time, however when I arrow down to activate (I can't just ) it defaults and changes the option to registered user - new messages since I last checked. The + was working great for me! LOL <did I answer all the questions?>
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:16 pm
Just discovered something else. When I refreshed I got ALL the topics not just my favorites.
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Admin
Board Administrator
07-07-2000
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:21 pm
Use the SEARCH PAGE instead. You can select new messages from there and it will use your favourites as a guide.
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:45 pm
I do use the SEARCH Page. Just wanted to let you know what happened when I tried 'Refreshing'.
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:54 pm
Draheid, my favorites selected only include five of the topics. Yes I can select one topic at a time, but it will only work if I check mark the box [Do not remember this check] if I want to see any of the other topics - since my Recent button is defaulting! Please tell your emulator to tell my webtv how to make it work, okay? Or get your buttocks over here and see it in person. You and Jmm need to visit 
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 9:58 pm
Urgrace I finally discovered exactly why you're having the situation you describe about only being able to use 'Recent' - I was not even thinking about it at the time but I am able to use my trackball (mouse equivalent) to click on 'Perform Search' in the emulator. When you only have arrow keys to navigate, once you hit the password box, it selects 'Recent' for you and unchecks the previous option. I'm looking for ways around that now.
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Bigd
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 10:13 pm
You are right Admin. I rebooted just for you and lo and behold ALL the "new" arrows were gone! Plus my log in stuff was gone - is there something I can do to correct that?
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Urgrace
Member
09-15-2002
| Friday, January 30, 2004 - 11:36 pm
Draheid, you are mostly right. To Perform Search as I have to go past the Password to get to 'Search' it selects 'Registered User' and unchecks 'Recent'. I am in no way complaining, just trying to let you know what is happening. Thank you for your research.
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