jamesdeluxe":21a6igc6 said:I just had a nice conversation with Felicia FakeName.
That's territory solidly staked out by TGR, where *every* topic eventually becomes a spray-a-thon and any thread longer than a page invariably has someone calling someone else a homo.EMSC":tim03rjo said:Perhaps Admin is trying to bring in the under 25 crowd?
jasoncapecod":2tfbi2ms said:I find it very annoying. I also think it is slowing down the site..
But with the constant poll to the mothership, it's consuming bandwidth and spiking my network traffic, thus making it unavailable for other apps....which can give the appearance of slowing things down.Admin":2gibrwm6 said:It loads last, however, so it's not slowing anything down.
Marc_C":9vrqjn2p said:But with the constant poll to the mothership, it's consuming bandwidth and spiking my network traffic, thus making it unavailable for other apps....which can give the appearance of slowing things down.
It was enough to trigger a network alert monitor at work today. Not so much the bandwidth as the constant communication, open port, and consumed router connection. Thanks to the new chat feature, I can no longer risk accessing FTO at work.Admin":1k6tdqn9 said:Have you bothered to measure just how much bandwidth those pings are consuming? It should be negligible.
I'm not saying that this feedback is negative in any way. I want people's honest opinions.
Marc_C":p7b0xbxs said:That's territory solidly staked out by TGR, where *every* topic eventually becomes a spray-a-thon and any thread longer than a page invariably has someone calling someone else a homo.EMSC":p7b0xbxs said:Perhaps Admin is trying to bring in the under 25 crowd?
I agree, and it's faster than PMing which in some cases could be usefull.SnowboardBuzz":3236matm said:Didn't feel any difference in browsing with this new feature. I won't mind if it last