How come Bloc's (TP) forum is so much faster than mine?
sometimes mine is a little fast, but never as fast as Bloc's and we have the same server..
could it be whats used and not used in the database? .. I read a post on SMF by [Unknown]
where he mentioned the speed and performance of your forum has to do with certain
technical/terms - things in the database..is your forum as fast as this TP forum??
crip~
Some things that will really slow down your TinyPortal will be what you put in the Blocks. I noticed this when I put a ventrilo block in my one of my frontpage blocks. It significantly added to the page load. When I disabled it, the page loaded just as fast as tinyportal.co.uk as far as I noticed.
RSS feeds would slow down a forum?
cuz I have several on my board/blocks?
Disable them and see. That's the only way you'll really be able to tell.
Is (will) "collapsing" a block be the same as disabling a block (in the future release)?
Example: assuming a RSS block is slowing a site down, if a user has that block minimized will the RSS feed still slow the site down?
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Bloc was looking at trying to do something like that.
I collapsed all of Tinyportals blocks and it goes ever faster if possible.. ;) ;)
Quote from: iowamf on November 30, 2005, 06:45:21 AM
Is (will) "collapsing" a block be the same as disabling a block (in the future release)?
Example: assuming a RSS block is slowing a site down, if a user has that block minimized will the RSS feed still slow the site down?
No, it will not disable it. Support for user-controlled disabling for blocks is not planned currently though. The upshrink only hides them..and remember it when you are logged in.
I could use cookies for that , but now it will store the entries in the database, making it stay the same if you switch machines.
Although..come to think of it, it would not be so hard to actually implement a option to *really* hide them - meaning disable- since the value for upshrink is present before the fetching of block data is done.
It would require a roundtrip to server though..since it doesn't have any data for the javascript-controlled upshrink to hide/show after you un-hide it.
Have to think some more about this.
No worries - I was just wondering.
Would rather see the existing functionality of this site (.8) be released before perfmonance tweaks ;)
It is great to hear you are thinking about it though - because I could see using RSS sideblocks heavily if there was some user customization possible and it didn't have a negative impact on performance.
Put on my to-do list. A bit down though. ;)