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Hello,
I browsed the faq's as well as searching them to no avail, so here goes:
Is there any information regarding the "features" sidebars to the right? I'm talking about:
Headlines!
New Fan Content!
Hot topics of the Week
Advertisement
Subscriber News
Specifically, is there any way to turn them off?
They are incredibly work heavy, turning an otherwise reasonably zippy site (yay!) into a cumbersome bogged-down experience. I haven't done any time measurements, but I would say that easily more than half the loading time whenever I click a new forum page is waiting for these sidebars. Probably more.
<rant>Sadly, this makes ENWorld join the ever-growing ranks of sites which push unwanted and often tangential content onto you, often making the page fetch heavy data and ui elements from several unrelated sites, including adware and social spams sites; despite how this can severely degrade the actual experience of the visit.</rant>
Of course, I can and will disable the elements myself, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to
1) tell the staff these things are painful
and
2) ask if anyone thought to make it possible to shut them down?
Thanks
PS. And oh, please don't tell me I can click the little icon in the top-right corner of each "feature". That does not help: while it does hide the information, it still loads first, and thus does not help in making my visit experience feel any faster.
I browsed the faq's as well as searching them to no avail, so here goes:
Is there any information regarding the "features" sidebars to the right? I'm talking about:
Headlines!
New Fan Content!
Hot topics of the Week
Advertisement
Subscriber News
Specifically, is there any way to turn them off?
They are incredibly work heavy, turning an otherwise reasonably zippy site (yay!) into a cumbersome bogged-down experience. I haven't done any time measurements, but I would say that easily more than half the loading time whenever I click a new forum page is waiting for these sidebars. Probably more.
<rant>Sadly, this makes ENWorld join the ever-growing ranks of sites which push unwanted and often tangential content onto you, often making the page fetch heavy data and ui elements from several unrelated sites, including adware and social spams sites; despite how this can severely degrade the actual experience of the visit.</rant>
Of course, I can and will disable the elements myself, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to
1) tell the staff these things are painful
and
2) ask if anyone thought to make it possible to shut them down?
Thanks
PS. And oh, please don't tell me I can click the little icon in the top-right corner of each "feature". That does not help: while it does hide the information, it still loads first, and thus does not help in making my visit experience feel any faster.