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Cant_Be_Faded
04-22-2005, 09:03 PM
I have to keep pressing the stop button because its making my computer from 1996 go twice as slow
mookie2001
04-22-2005, 09:05 PM
yeah here at the house we have dial up and ive never seen it at full speed
the page is just loading and loading
ZStomp
04-22-2005, 09:38 PM
What banner?
pooh
04-22-2005, 10:43 PM
It's nice but I agree, it slows things down quite a bit. I've had to click where it says "don't show images" on my user profile just to speed up stuff, but nothing.
ZStomp
04-22-2005, 11:03 PM
I use Firefox and it didnt' work there. So I went to Internet Explorer..and it worked.

Nice.
PimpScourge
04-22-2005, 11:12 PM
I use FF too, and works well.
baseline bum
04-22-2005, 11:49 PM
It's about a 1.7 MB animated GIF. I like the banner, but I agree it would suck on a slow connection or a computer without a lot of RAM.
ZStomp
04-23-2005, 12:13 AM
It working on FF now.
Kori Ellis
04-23-2005, 01:35 AM
I'll see what we can do to make it not slow down for you guys so much.

LJ will make an alternate skin that you can use if you are on dial up that doesn't have the animation. We'll tell you guys about it as soon as it's ready (sometime this weekend).
MannyIsGod
04-23-2005, 11:53 AM
Hmm, this computer runs fine with it and i'm on dialup.
baseline bum
04-23-2005, 12:34 PM
That's almost a 4 1/2 minute download at best on a dialup connection.
Kori Ellis
04-23-2005, 12:37 PM
That's almost a 4 1/2 minute download at best on a dialup connection.

That's incorrect. It works within a minute for a lot of people that have dialup.
xcoriate
04-23-2005, 12:48 PM
Manny probably has the file cached, people should look to do that as it will stop the downloading on every page.

It won't however eleviate RAM usage.
Kori Ellis
04-23-2005, 12:51 PM
Well either way, like I said earlier in this thead. We will make an option for users to pick an alternate skin with no animation.
MannyIsGod
04-23-2005, 01:06 PM
yeah, it's cached. Man, you have to do that on dialup or every page on the net now will take 2 years to load everytime you vist it.
Brodels
04-23-2005, 01:17 PM
An alternative will be appreciated.

It only appears on some pages for me, but I have a very difficult time typing in the textbox on those pages. I'll type but the words won't appear until a couple of seconds later. It's making it very difficult to reply.
thispego
04-23-2005, 01:44 PM
there is a new banner?
Kori Ellis
04-23-2005, 01:57 PM
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14181