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Re: Faster-loading pages for super-long threads
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Date: 
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 20:12:02 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
[...]  Not only is this a complete waste of bandwidth on each page display,
but unless you have a very fast CPU, it can take several seconds for your
browser to format and display the page after receiving it. [...]

To fix this, I'm shoving the "connect the dots" visual-tree-graph off of the
article-display page when the thread grows super-large. [...]

Thank you Todd, you have done us all a great service. Several seconds, indeed.
My browser took 24 seconds to format that thread tree, and that's on a Pentium
233. I won't even attempt it on my slower machines.

- Robert Munafo



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  Faster-loading pages for super-long threads
 
Small changepoint in the way messages are displayed on the web interface: There's a thread going now that's nearly 400 messages long (yes, really!) and this is fine, but it makes for some really unpleasantly plump "connect the dots" thread displays (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.announce)

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