Styles issues

[darkbard]

though the timing right now is precarious, i've just finished switching back and forth between the classic and new styles and found a significant speed-up with the classic style. i'm running pentium III, 512, windows ME, IE 6 for what it's worth. oh, and i too love the new format but not at the expense of hanging the system. perhaps they're unrelated but for the moment i'm going classic.

 

[Mark]

though the timing right now is precarious, i've just finished switching back and forth between the classic and new styles and found a significant speed-up with the classic style.

I've notioced the exact same thing and would request that EN World Classic Style be made into the DEFAULT style for the boards. I've switched back and forth several times and despite theories to the contrary it does seem to be making a difference.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I've notioced the exact same thing...

Likewise.

Classic Style's helped.

Even when the other optional styles were disabled, though, I was still crawling on the Default, until I hunted down the "Change Styles" procedure to switch the dropdowns off...

-Hyp.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I've notioced the exact same thing and would request that EN World Classic Style be made into the DEFAULT style for the boards. I've switched back and forth several times and despite theories to the contrary it does seem to be making a difference.

Ditto, much faster on the old style. In fact I have no slowdown at all.


I'll up date after my watch. (Basically another 8 hours of surfing)

 

[Mark]

Ditto, much faster on the old style. In fact I have no slowdown at all.


I'll up date after my watch. (Basically another 8 hours of surfing)

If you can switch between styles midway (as well as at the end) through your watch and see how it is working that'd be great, IMO.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

test 1

If you can switch between styles midway (as well as at the end) through your watch and see how it is working that'd be great, IMO.

Sure right now, I'm on a T1 plus connection, but it's not dedicated to me. (download.com rates me at: 207.8 kbps)

To load this page over again with only a change in style

On the Classic: 3 seconds (give or take human error)

On the new theme: 7 to 8 secounds (give or take human error)

Note: both pages where refreshed and given a chance to cache anything they needed too.

OS Info (None of this will change during the night)
NT 4.0 SP6
384 MB RAM

Broswer- Internet Explorer
6.0.2800.1106
128 bit encryption

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

907 Gmt

On the Classic: 8 seconds (give or take human error)

On the new theme: 13 secounds (give or take human error)

 

[talinthas]

no need to be a donkey, MM. I'm running a p4 2.8 gHz with 512 megs of ram, and the site was super slow for me too, until i switched back to the classic style.

Seriously dude, why the rush to implement all this stuff, when the site doesnt need it? The old adage is true here- what aint broke, dont fix.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

1115 Gmt

On the Classic: 8 seconds (give or take human error)

On the new theme: 10 secounds (give or take human error)

download.com rates me at: 216.7 kbps

 

[Buttercup]

I really like the look of the new styles. And I can imagine just how much work Michael put into them. EN World has had slow-down problems before, so it didn't occur to me that the holiday style I was using might be the problem, but after reading this thread, I switched back to classic, and now all is well again.

I'm running a P4 with 1.8gig with 512 ram, XP and a DSL connection. Oh, and the very latest version of IE6.

Unlike some of the other posters to this thread, I'm not any sort of expert. But it's certainly true that changing the style speeded things up considerably. I'm sorry, Michael. I hope you can get it fixed.