Metropol

I don't think there can be ANY sensible argument left in favour of the main and news forums staying separate at TVF.

You only need to look at the recent traffic levels here to understand whether combined or separate forums are more popular with the users.

QED, as far as I'm concerned.

TVDragon wrote:

tvmercia wrote:of course we wouldnt need that revolving little gimmick at all if certain members hadnt insisted on the creation of a seperate news forum.

You don't mean me do you? Or am I being thick.

My life has been void and empty since the late Wales thread ceased to be when the forum went all communist.

The main forum now seems only to be about CDUK, Eastenders and James Martin, oh look posting *again* about H&A everywhere.

haha! no, not you. i believe it was a select band of hardened news bores who resented seeing other people post about non-news programmes. i mean how dare we watch anything other than bbc world, i ask you.

bring back the old wales thread i say - the current one led by jeremy is a bit one-sided methinks.

GJ Online wrote:The revolving news topic ticker was in the media forum before with the press site updates.

Indeed.

I ASSUME that moving it from the media forum to the main forum means that far more people are now accessing it and that's the reason it now uses up so much processor and generates the "busy" messages.

Nick Harvey wrote:

GJ Online wrote:The revolving news topic ticker was in the media forum before with the press site updates.

Indeed.

I ASSUME that moving it from the media forum to the main forum means that far more people are now accessing it and that's the reason it now uses up so much processor and generates the "busy" messages.

To be fair I doubt that the ticker makes any difference - it's a bit of JavaScript, which means that it uses YOUR processor power, not the server's.

Nick Harvey wrote:

GJ Online wrote:The revolving news topic ticker was in the media forum before with the press site updates.

Indeed.

I ASSUME that moving it from the media forum to the main forum means that far more people are now accessing it and that's the reason it now uses up so much processor and generates the "busy" messages.

i have waited and waited for you to mention the fact meropol's clock is still an hour-out nick, but you haven't i remember it last time the clocks changed, the delay in putting the tvf clock right got you in an awful tizz. is your body clock synchronised to the tvf clock and not metroplops?

James Hatts wrote:To be fair I doubt that the ticker makes any difference - it's a bit of JavaScript, which means that it uses YOUR processor power, not the server's.

How can MY processor know what's going on in a different forum to the one I'm looking at without using Asa's processor power to interrogate the database of the other forum?

tvmercia wrote:i have waited and waited for you to mention the fact meropol's clock is still an hour-out nick, but you haven't

Must be something to do with settings then, Mr VAT Crime, as I'm not seeing any problem on Metropol.

I just posted at one minute past five and it's showing as posted at 5.01pm okay.

I'd prefer it to say 17:01, rather than 5.01pm, but I can live with that.

Nick Harvey wrote:

James Hatts wrote:To be fair I doubt that the ticker makes any difference - it's a bit of JavaScript, which means that it uses YOUR processor power, not the server's.

How can MY processor know what's going on in a different forum to the one I'm looking at without using Asa's processor power to interrogate the database of the other forum?

Good point - I suppose it probably does involve an additional database query. I hadn't thought of that.

Nick Harvey wrote:

tvmercia wrote:i have waited and waited for you to mention the fact meropol's clock is still an hour-out nick, but you haven't

Must be something to do with settings then, Mr VAT Crime, as I'm not seeing any problem on Metropol.

I just posted at one minute past five and it's showing as posted at 5.01pm okay.

I'd prefer it to say 17:01, rather than 5.01pm, but I can live with that.

how queer, i guess i'll have to set it manually in my profile then

James Hatts wrote:Good point - I suppose it probably does involve an additional database query.

I've just had a quick peek at my line traffic and it APPEARS to do a new database query every four seconds, each time the text changes.

Now, that IS processor heavy at the server end.

tvmercia wrote:how queer

How DARE you!