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[Music-chan]

Woooo! Check me out! XD

Thanks Hal. ^_^

[metroid composite]

We try and run graphic light in the posts to provide the easiest access to everyone and the most pleasant forum going experience.

I am curious about the banner, then, since it randomly rotates between about six images now (some of which are 45k-90k).  Smilies, on the other hand, range from 0.17 KB to 0.63 KB, thus loading up the standard 20 phpBB smilies is about 4 KB...1/20 the size of the banner....

[Zenthor]

In Theory, yes.  In practice, however (at least with me), the banners tend to load immediately for me, but the smiley list tends to take a great deal longer to load completely (typically around 10 seconds or so).

Maybe it's just me, or it's possible that the way the smiley list is coded it takes longer for it to load, or something.

[Halbarad]

It's the number of files loading on the computer at once, I believe. With the smiley panel, you're downloading 20 (admittedly small) gifs, but trying to do so simultaneously, which slows down the page load time. Or at least that's how I'd imagine it works.

[Halbarad]

And another upgrade in the bag. You may notice that profile pages look a bit different now; a new profile control panel mod has been installed. If you're so inclined, you can add more personal data (and I highly recommend that everyone set their timezone accurately at the very least, so we can get a better idea of where in the world everyone is located). You can ignore the new update if you don't really care, but hopefully this will let us know a bit more about the other folks who post here.

[Jon]

Uh, call me crazy, but I can't find an option to set my timezone. It has an option to set whether we have daylight savings time or not, but I can't see an actual GMT offset option. Oh, and "Web Informations" sounds very engrish.

[Halbarad]

Corrected, aside from the spelling.

[Dracos]

We try and run graphic light in the posts to provide the easiest access to everyone and the most pleasant forum going experience.

I am curious about the banner, then, since it randomly rotates between about six images now (some of which are 45k-90k).  Smilies, on the other hand, range from 0.17 KB to 0.63 KB, thus loading up the standard 20 phpBB smilies is about 4 KB...1/20 the size of the banner....

I meant inside the post in general.  In sigs, avatars, embeded images, smilies, we tend to keep it down rather than have a very fancy setup.

Dracos

[Jeram]

I would hereby like to present my WHOLEHEARTED agreement with the minimalist signature approach - on other forums, you end up waiting seven hours for a page to load, and once that's done, you still have to scroll past endless pages of huge pictures.

So yes, I think we should keep sigs as they are.

-J

[metroid composite]

Hmm...making a post to make sure I have the time zone correct.

[Brian]

If you go to the main page, it should display the time/date in the upper-left, right beneath the banner.