New forum software - need your help testing & input

[Steve St.Laurent]

You can post your pics now - that's what the reader's rigs section is. Videos won't be happening. With the amount of usage that we get the bandwidth costs would be WAY too high.

 

[Gray Ghost]

Colors hurt the old eyes. Try a medium blue. IBM did a test

and that was one of the most restful colors. Other than that,

fine by me

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

ALL eleven colors hurt your eyes?

 

[thejeepdude]

The only color that hurts my eyes is the nasty purple background at the top of the page.



Get's your attention tho!

 

[thejeepdude]

Hey Steve, I just did a little test to compare bandwidth requirements between the old sites and the new. You're right about the graphics not making that much of a difference because they're cached, however I thought this was sort of interesting. I did a search in both the old and new software to find a common thread that would fill at least one full page (in this case "amsoil" and used thread "Chrome or polished oil filler cap. ") I clicked on the thread in each window, then view the source and saved it to notepad for each version, with the identical number of messages in each. What I found was as follows:



oldversion. txt - 98551 bytes

newversion. txt - 132034 bytes



So, that's a 34% increase in bandwidth, just for the non-cached ascii portion of the viewable page. Looking through the html, it appears that this is mostly due to the extensive number of tags required for the pop-down menus, and doesn't include the rendering of the menus themselves, which btw is really slow on the old crappy P166 that's designated as the "truck laptop" (fits in the center console.



I guess the bottom line is I gotta suck it up and upgrade my technology with the times, because I know you said staying with 2. x isn't an option.



Don't take any of this wrong... you do a wonderful job with the site. I've been a webmaster and basically, I know it sucks! lol so keep up the good work! Just had to let you know there are some of us die-hards out here that still appreciate function over form, so don't 100% forget about us.

 

[RADdodge]

Are all the threads from the past still available? The reason I ask is before the upgrade I was searching on "brake light abs. " There were too many threads to read in one sitting. Now I get nothing or if I just search on "brake light" I get one thread. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Are all the threads from the past still available? The reason I ask is before the upgrade I was searching on "brake light abs. " There were too many threads to read in one sitting. Now I get nothing or if I just search on "brake light" I get one thread. Am I doing something wrong?

Read the sticky note that's at the top of this forum on information on the new forums. The search engine has to be rebuilt from scratch which will take about a week to complete. Right now there is nothing in the search engine except what has been posted this morning.