While I think this is cool, I find it extremely surprising that the Allakhazam developers would be adding *more* content to serve when the servers are having trouble serving what we already have! And it's just text!
Based on the recent post requesting advice on what would make people become premium members, this is clearly an extension of that. I just hope this idea isn't implemented so short-sightedly that we will soon have a day when every premium post in a thread has a big graphic to download as well and we end up taking a nap between page loads rather than going to the restroom.
That's hyperbole, but it's only equally as ridiculous as adding content to an overloaded site. I just did a test to go to the THF forums and I clicked "Job Forums". After THIRTEEN seconds, a page with nothing more than a text table and the navigation bar shows up. Next test was four seconds only. I thought, "maybe it's better," so I tried again and it took NINETEEN SECONDS to load a text table!
Please address the more important problems first. Fancy sigs do us no good if we can't load them.
Edit:
I saw someone else posted this while I was writing:
Quote:
Performance and speed of Allakhazam (the website...not the admin icon) from my perspective has been the biggest grievance...yet adding sig images is only going to make that problem worse.
I agree completely.
Really, the graphical sig idea is very cool, but please not until the speed issues are resolved.
Edited, Thu Feb 9 14:40:58 2006 by jerji