All non-essential functions disabled

[Agnostic Paladin]

I can live without the jump function. Half the time I forget about it and back out to the forum lists anyhow.

The main thing I noticed was the 200 person limit. I tried getting in about 5 times over the course of the day, and this is the first time I didn't get told it was too busy.

 

[Umbran]

*shrug*. Call me overly-logical, but isn't a large part of the point of a message board the ability to communicate with people no matter where they are, or what time they're around? It would seem to me that a feature telling you who was online would be pretty far down the list of things that actually make the boards work.

I find I don't miss things like the Avatars and .sigs. Features like the little jump pull-down and searching are far more integral to using and getting around the site, I would think.

 

[CRGreathouse]

Yes, the 200-person limit is priority #1; I don't miss the avatars, either - despite using a custom avatar for my other "persona."

 

[Darkness]

I can live without the jump function. Half the time I forget about it and back out to the forum lists anyhow.

The same goes for me, actually; I can't recall ever having used it - either here or on the old boards.

 

[reapersaurus]

Features like the little jump pull-down and searching are far more integral to using and getting around the site, I would think.

sigs are an integral part of the boards experience, IMO.
But i agree, the search is MUCH more important than any fluff features.
And i never used the jump either.... (i'll have to check it out IF it comes back)

 

[MythandLore]

I used almost every funtion the board (even the jump menu) had to offer until they were turned off.
Except for the Sigs.
I turned off the sigs, I donno, I just got sick of seeing them one day.
With Avatars I really don't think they're that big a deal anyway.
Eh, whatever, the boards are running really great now without the funtions bing turned on, I think they can stay off, no big.

 

[Horacio]

For me the boards are good enough now... besides the 200 members limit!!!!

That limit really buggeg me yesterday. I have now a brand new ADSL connection, mainly to surf these boards at home, and I couldn't use it

 

[EverSoar]

I have not problems with leaving the boards how they are now.

 

[Someguy]

Just the limit bugs me really right now, otherwise the rest is fluff, (Cool fluff I might add)

 

[Ysgarran]

I wonder, Morrus, do you have GZip compression turned on? If you have, you are minimizing your bandwith needs, but it puts more stress on the server CPU.

That said, there are still other ways of minimizing bandwith by tinkering with the templates. On my vBulletin boards a thread list in a forum is less than 7KB. Here it's about 65KB!

Which brings up a question in my mind. Morrus do you know what the bottle neck is at the moment with the servers? Is it really CPU bound? Are you using up all the memory? Or is the bandwidth?

I am curious as to what kind of machines that are in use.