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Subject: 
Re: .mecha loading slowly??
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.admin.suggestions
Followup-To: 
lugnet.build.mecha
Date: 
Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:51:31 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mecha, Eric Sophie wrote:
   In lugnet.build.mecha, Bryce McGlone wrote:
   I’ve noticed for several months that .mecha seems to take a lot longer than the rest of Lugnet to load. I’m on a T-3 line here but have noticed the same thing at home on DSL.


Seeing as how I’m not super internet speed savvy is there anyone who knows why .mecha takes to much longer?

SNIP

I think it has to do with the newsgroups placement as a sub group of .build.

SNIP

When I use broadband or dial up, it still takes a moment to load. Access speed is not the issue, it is in pulling the info from the database in a sub newsgroup that holds up the load time.

e

If the location of .mecha as a subgroup of .build is the reason for the slow
loading, we should take another attempt to what Mark suggested 10 month ago.

Although Mecha isn’t an official LEGO theme I’d suggest to put it as a top level
group like e.g. .trains (see option two).

Anyone else who’d support this??

Marco



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  Re: .mecha loading slowly??
 
(...) -Snip- (...) I am not completely sure the reasons I mentioned are indeed the real causes. I just want to stress that. Though, I have worked with Mark to run tests to see if the coding and images were/are the causes. (...) That would be cool. (...) (19 years ago, 29-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
  Re: .mecha loading slowly??
 
(...) It isnt, but then between exoforce and Bionacle they have headed generally in the mecha direction for some time. Some of the classic space sets were mecha-like. So in that respect, Lego have had a number of official sets which are mecha. For (...) (19 years ago, 29-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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  Re: .mecha loading slowly??
 
(...) I asked Todd about this a few years ago. He assured me that the page loads just as fast as other newsgroups. Really it does load slow. Always has. I think it has to do with the newsgroups placement as a sub group of .build. I once tried an (...) (19 years ago, 29-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)

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