Where did the avatars go?

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Hey, I just noticed that all the avatars are gone? It also appears as if there is no way to replaice them. Is there something going on ? Can anyone else see em?
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Chris
 
maxilaria said:
Hey, I just noticed that all the avatars are gone? It also appears as if there is no way to replaice them. Is there something going on ? Can anyone else see em?
Confused
Chris
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look at announcements, they're temporarily disabled, along with searching
 
whew.... I thought it was just me....I just did some about:config editing with Firefox and thought I messed up my browser. Good question, maybe the Admins/mods are working on something...I dunno...
 
lol sublime I though it was me too. I know you can disable them and thought I had somehow. U read good chrisinha ;).
 
Also, I think this may be a problem. Recently, I tweaked my browser to change my Firefox settings with ForecastFox...anyway, I read that a certain FF tweak can be changed, that is designed to make FF load pages faster but have read that it causes hell on servers. I hope that is not the case for FF users here. I am not intending for people to do this, and I know people will do if they want. But I hope that for the sake of this site being free, people are not doing that.
I think that it Bumps the Number of Requests from something small to a huge number. Just wanted to inform the admins...
 
sublime1184 said:
Also, I think this may be a problem. Recently, I tweaked my browser to change my Firefox settings with ForecastFox...anyway, I read that a certain FF tweak can be changed, that is designed to make FF load pages faster but have read that it causes hell on servers. I hope that is not the case for FF users here. I am not intending for people to do this, and I know people will do if they want. But I hope that for the sake of this site being free, people are not doing that.
I think that it Bumps the Number of Requests from something small to a huge number. Just wanted to inform the admins...
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The change increases the number of concurrent requests Mozilla/Firefox will make. It doesn't change the number of requests to the server, only the timing of them. In the grand scheme of things, it should have no real impact on the servers. It does make a significant difference on the client-side though, especially if you have a broadband connection.
 
cgrabe said:
The change increases the number of concurrent requests Mozilla/Firefox will make. It doesn't change the number of requests to the server, only the timing of them. In the grand scheme of things, it should have no real impact on the servers. It does make a significant difference on the client-side though, especially if you have a broadband connection.
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Well, you have to request the info from the server...So that would slow it down.
 
sublime1184 said:
Well, you have to request the info from the server...So that would slow it down.
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Yes, but it doesn't make any more requests than it would anyway. With the default settings, if there are 3 objects on a page, Firefox will request the first object, download it, request the second object, etc. If you change the setting to allow 2 concurrent requests, Firefox will request the first two objects, wait for one of them to finish, then request the third object whithout waiting on the other to finish. This way, the entire page is downloaded faster, but there are still only three requests made to the server. If a website gets 10,000 hits per day with dozen of objects served for each hit, each user requesting several objects at a time instead of requesting them sequentially isn't going to make any real difference.
 
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