This is one of the easiest boards I've ever been on. Very simple and easy to use but then again I've been online and using forums and boards for over 10 years so maybe I'm not the best judge.
I chose this forum software because I felt it offered the best balance between many features, fast, and easy to use.
I suggest we should test the site throughout, including the features within the Messages "board", settings "board" and all others. Then we're gonna to obtain the knowledge (apart from helping Frans get the site fine-tuned) about all the procedures, peculiarities, tip & trick, after which we're able to propose a comprehensive, laconic etc. Guide to the Site for the hordes of new users we here seem to expect...
The Simple Machines developers spent years creating this system. You make it sound like I wrote it all by myself within a couple of weeks.
Of course it's not a plain vanilla install, and especially the "My Bookmarks" feature should be appreciated by Opera veterans, as well as first post on every page.
Yeah, the same thing still applies. On this site, we've got something like 10-20kB of content* to 100-300kB of other stuff,** but since most of that is images, it doesn't really slow down page loading. On Vivaldi there is in fact over 300kB of JS and over 100kB of CSS, ergo it does affect rendering time quite a bit—especially when a script is delayed.
* I use the word content somewhat loosely. ** Depends a bit on the amount of people (i.e. avatars), smilies, images…
Opera/Presto is Opera 7 through 12. Opera/Blink is Opera 15+.
IE's rendering engine is called Trident. Fx' rendering engine is called Gecko. Safari's (and Chromium's former) rendering engine is called Webkit.
It's not necessarily important, but if something uses e.g. the Blink engine you know it can probably do most of the same things Chromium can wrt displaying web pages.
SSL negotiation was also shown on the graphs posted by Frenzie earlier.
Graphs? I don't recall doing that?
My ping to Vivaldi is ±28ms (±25ms for fransdejonge.com), but responses seem to take longer than that. Of course, the Vivaldi site says its creation time is 200ms, while mine here says it's more like 20-30ms.
Slightly; V8 deals somewhat better with the overuse of JS. Most of it still comes down to how long it takes for the data to get to me, which as you said isn't made any faster by SSL.
There's either a bottleneck to the east or Josh is exaggerating, but it's definitely an order of magnitude slower than here.
I think one of the best developments we're seeing is (near) energy-neutral buildings. I believe starting in 2015 already, all new houses in Brussels have to be (near) energy-neutral. Although we live in an ancient apartment, we already treat it as if it were energy neutral by simply closing the living-room door. Our body heat combined with a computer or two usually suffice to keep it at 17-18°, and only when it's freezing, especially when there's also wind, is the occasional intervention from the furnace required. The thermostat is set to 17°.
Lest you think we live in a fairly nice and modern apartment, we don't. Only the living room has double glazing, and even so insulation is abysmal. The ceiling is higher than necessary at 3.2m (2.5m should do), and doubtless badly insulated too. I don't understand the high ceilings anyway. Remove those 70-80cm of unnecessary height from each apartment and you've got another apartment! Of course, that's a question for the architects in 1960 or whenever this place was constructed; it's hardly something that can be changed now.
What I fear is that usable space won't improve. By being more efficient with height, you can give everyone more space without much of a significant cost. Instead, landlords seem to make the apartments in height-efficient buildings even smaller, akin to the dystopia in Billennium. Except my fear relates not to overpopulation—at least, we've had the technology to stop that for decades—but to unbridled capitalism. That is, I think we need norms not only about energy use, but also more about livability both inside and outside the house.
All that's needed is a bottleneck somewhere along the way to Russia. At times I've tried to watch videos from China (mostly when linked by jax), only to find them loading at 30kB/s or less. That never happens when I try to view something from Europe or America.
That being said, Vivaldi actually took something like 6 seconds to load the page I linked a few hours ago, while now it loads within two seconds.
But I'm not keen on having the users maintain "heavy" signatures/avatars.
Not keen on them myself josh. Simple text signatures are what I prefer to see on a forum.
Same here, but the existing ones seem acceptable. The forum allows me to set a limit to their size, which I set to 500x25 based on Smiley's new signature image (499x25).
Though it sounds like Git would make an amazing backup tool, Git really doesn't work out well for backups over the long term. Many solutions that are specifically designed for performing backups are even less expensive than GitHub's Micro plan.
Still, looking at the Git book, it's not immediately obvious why this should be the case. Perhaps the issue is simply that they're talking about Github, while Git itself might still be a brilliant general backup tool. A quick search shows roughly the same conclusion by someone more knowledgeable, including some of the defects.
In any case, for everything that isn't collaborative, I set up Git repositories of my plain text files. Zim even comes with built-in Git support, which I use. To quote myself:
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The great thing about versioning software isn’t necessarily that you can go back to a former version, but the knowledge that you can go back. Normally I’m always busy commenting out text or putting it at the bottom, but when it’s versioned I feel much more free about just deleting it. Maybe I’ll put some of it back in later, but it lets the machine take the work off of my hands.
Edit: no fair, edits don't show up as a new post in preview mode.
From my perspective, that argument doesn't really work. He stepped down as CEO in 2010, and in 2011, this is how he resigned from Opera completely (according to Wikipedia):
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Dear All,
It is with a heavy heart that I send this message. Next week will be my last at Opera. It has become clear that The Board, Management and I do not share the same values and we do not have the same opinions on how to keep evolving Opera. As a result I have come to an agreement with the Board to end my time at Opera. I feel the Board and Management is more quarterly focused than me. I have always worked to build the company for the future. I believe the foundation we have is very solid to build further upon.
I do believe strongly in Opera as a company, and in all of you working here. Our products actually make a difference for a lot of people in the world, and I wish you all the best of luck moving forward. I will be following the company closely and rooting for you all.
Yours truly, Jon.
These differences of opinion with the board seem to point to the difference between the Opera that I liked and the Opera that made an increasing amount of decisions I don't much understand or care for—including the killing of My Opera. I suspect my sentiment might be shared by many (My) Opera users.
Has any DnD Officer ever approached Steve to come here & get involved, or at the very least offer us an endorsement in MyOpera, &/or a public acknowledgment there of our existence & format?
DnD Officer? But yes, Mac did at the very least mention the place to him.
I added something as a test, but I'm not too enthused about it. I'll leave it enabled for a little bit. I have no problem with +1 posts.
Edit: it was buggy; it added about a dozen jQuerys. Anyway, this isn't something I'm likely to create myself, so not for now. It'll be standard in Simple Machines 2.1 though, whenever that comes out.
But I think you'll have to install the whole of Qt 5.2, and I don't really feel like trying to figure all that out. http://qt-project.org/downloads
I gave Otter a quick try in a virtual XP. It's surprisingly functional and fast already, but there doesn't seem to be any attempt at implementing customization yet. The programmer achieved these results so quickly by focusing exclusively on the GUI, while the toolkit and engine are provided by Qt. Kind of like what Opera says they're doing.
