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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 1652386" data-attributes="member: 87">FYI Ryan, most of the coding changes I've done in the last month have been with the goal of reducing server load. Unlike your version of the page, I get back a small report on each page load on the time, in milliseconds, it took to compile and send the page. By finding more efficient ways to do things I've shaved off about 3 milliseconds / page load.&nbsp; I know that doesn't sound like much, but mulitplied over hundreds of page loads / day it is.As to the icon change, it was a direct response to a complaint filed by MANY people about the inability to tell the difference between the thread icons. For the most part the old ones look a lot alike.&nbsp; The new ones can be differentiated easily - at a glance you can tell what threads are hot, and which ones are not.I'm sorry if this upsets you, but I was told once by a very wise member of these boards that it is impossible to keep everyone satisfied all of the time. So in this case I'll press forward with what changes can be done to further reduce server load and to improve the functionality of the site.And that's what this is to me - a functionality change.&nbsp; The old icons didn't serve their purpose of alerting folks to the thread statuses.&nbsp; This, in the default style, is a problem.Now, if you don't like images that much Ryan, switch to the stealth styleset.&nbsp; That mode was specifically designed to produce a minimum of images and shouldn't annoy you as much as the default mode apparently now does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Morris, post: 1652386, member: 87"] FYI Ryan, most of the coding changes I've done in the last month have been with the goal of reducing server load. Unlike your version of the page, I get back a small report on each page load on the time, in milliseconds, it took to compile and send the page. By finding more efficient ways to do things I've shaved off about 3 milliseconds / page load. I know that doesn't sound like much, but mulitplied over hundreds of page loads / day it is. As to the icon change, it was a direct response to a complaint filed by MANY people about the inability to tell the difference between the thread icons. For the most part the old ones look a lot alike. The new ones can be differentiated easily - at a glance you can tell what threads are hot, and which ones are not. I'm sorry if this upsets you, but I was told once by a very wise member of these boards that it is impossible to keep everyone satisfied all of the time. So in this case I'll press forward with what changes can be done to further reduce server load and to improve the functionality of the site. And that's what this is to me - a functionality change. The old icons didn't serve their purpose of alerting folks to the thread statuses. This, in the default style, is a problem. Now, if you don't like images that much Ryan, switch to the stealth styleset. That mode was specifically designed to produce a minimum of images and shouldn't annoy you as much as the default mode apparently now does. [/QUOTE]

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