Yabb in crisis

student100

If you use Internet Explorer:

Right click on reply and select "Open in New Window" or hold down Shift and click reply.


If you use Mozilla/Firefox:

Right click on reply and select "Open Link in New Window"
or right click on reply and select "Open Link in New Tab"
or control-click on the link
or shift-click on the link
or click the link with the middle mouse button (or wheel on some mice)

Depending on your settings this will either open up a new window or a new tab.

As you can see Firefox is a much more usable browser than IE

Martinslovechild

The site seems to have improved from Extremely Slow

to

Very Slow

Anything else that can be done?

Bigger server?
Windows 2003?

raeble

Would restricting viewing of the forums to registered members only speed things up a bit, I know they do this on other forums in busy periods? Only allowing one user name to be tied to one email address for new members. Also not having new membership becoming live until 24 or 48 hours after you've confirmed your email address.

Oh yes and merge threads that are on the same topic.

Pink.

I know its not perfect - but i'm sure you'll agree the fact the site is a bit quicker (load average down by 70%) and you can now actually use the search, is a big improvement!

I am on dial up and find the recent changes have made a great difference to the speed of the site.

May i suggest you right click when you press reply that way you will keep both windows open

Wow! That's fantastic! Being unable to see the previous posts was driving me nuts. Especially when I typed my reply and then couldn't remember the name of the person I was replying to.

Thanks, you've made life easier for me.

Pink

System

Anything else that can be done?

Bigger server?
Windows 2003?

I have to say this: If the servers ran windows, they'd have been anihilated by now.... so Windows 2003 wouldn't be much help

The servers run open source Operating Systems (Debian & RedHat)

isasmurf

If you use Mozilla/Firefox:

Right click on reply and select "Open Link in New Window"
or right click on reply and select "Open Link in New Tab"
or control-click on the link
or shift-click on the link
or click the link with the middle mouse button (or wheel on some mice)

Depending on your settings this will either open up a new window or a new tab.

As you can see Firefox is a much more usable browser than IE

And all of these will also work in other browsers such as Opera and Avant.

As you can see Firefox is a more usable browser than IE, as are most other browsers, but not more usable than Opera.

Yours
Anti Firefox