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Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:42 pm
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Forum Medic
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 174
Location: Pennsylvania
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I was wondering if it would be possible to create a second set of forums, which are a mirrior to the first, as a Lo-Fi version, for those of us who use dialup... I hate waiting 3-4 mins for each topic/thread to completely load all the pics and such before I can read anything...
Essentially Im suggesting a forums mirror which is devoid of smilies, signatures and avatars... (Thus vastly improving the loading time for those of us on dialup, namely me...) I believe these are all options which are available in the phpBB admin control panel, although I would not suggest messing with these settings until/unless you've created a mirror, so as not to screw up the existing boards...
Let me know what you think about this idea...
For now, I'll look around in my user settings to see if I can disable these things on my own...
Thanks...
FE
EDIT: Apparently these are not settings users can change... =( |
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Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:21 pm
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Forum HW
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 838
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Get firefox and you can disable pictures from showing and it won't download them either.
I knwo how you feel though, I was on dial-up till not long ago and walking into a forum is bloody murder. |
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Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:16 am
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 25 Nov 2004
Posts: 1269
Location: sacramento ca
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i think its a built in thing in Vbulitin |
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Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:53 pm
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Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 6505
Location: New Jersey
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Seems the only thing you can do in your profile is turn off the smiles.
Other than that, I'm with using Firefox. It's a faster browser and you can block images as you can in IE. I <3 ya but, sounds like an easy fix to keep me from a load of work. |
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Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:08 pm
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Forum Medic
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 174
Location: Pennsylvania
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Bah, no worries, I'll just putt putt along until I move in a few months, then I'll have cable again (HORRAY)! |
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Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:52 am
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Posts: 2504
Location: NJ
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loled at "people who use dial -up"
except in yyour case eddy my sexy buddy. |
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