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Frankly, I don't know enough about computers to say, but I do know that Morrus said (back when the jump menu was removed) that it was removed as part of the attempt to improve the speed.
Edit: After searching through many threads about the forum jump menu, I finally found the comment: here you go. Maybe it requires a database look up or is just too fancy?
It would seem odd for it to be a problem since the alternative board-side would be to make demands on the board at least twice to get where you are going rather than a single time using the forum-jump-dropdown-menu. Perhaps, to go from one forum to another, not having forum-jump-dropdown-menu is actually contributing to the slowdown as thousands of users are having to make twice the demands on the database as they need to click from the forum they are in to the forum menu then click on again to the forum they wish to actually visit. Does going to the forum menu not put demands on the database?
Frankly, I don't know enough about computers to say, but I do know that Morrus said (back when the jump menu was removed) that it was removed as part of the attempt to improve the speed.
Edit: After searching through many threads about the forum jump menu, I finally found the comment: here you go. Maybe it requires a database look up or is just too fancy?
I think he was saying he turned it off along with a bunch of other features, and among those features were things that ate resources.
I can think of a way to code it that would require a db look up, and a way to code it that would not. Hell, it could just be a small block of static HTML (updated each time they update the forum structure, which is seldom).
Cheers, -- N
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