People are going on reddit where users post gifys, then taking the much larger gif versions and posting them in game threads. 20 meg gifs really sucks when you don't expect it and someone posts 2 or 3 of them. the gif format sucks, link to the gify, don't post the huge .gif
Agreed! When I open the page on my phone it slows everything down and it takes a while just to toggle back to the previous page. Probably the best way to handle this, until people learn, will be to report these posts and describe why. Then the mods can delete/modify the posts and explain things to the poster who's doing it.
Nothing worse than folks who quote GIFs, Vine, videos & large pics. STOP QUOTING THEM! or spoiler it at least
Those aren't good, but 20 meg gifs will slow the page to a crawl until it fully loads like this http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=9396668&postcount=1561 Reporting only works if the mods agree this sort of thing should be avoided or spoilered.
I don't want to be mean to the guy (the gifs are nice after all), but it is almost always zeeshan2. I tried asking him to spoiler them at least, but it looks like it didn't work. If you see this, no hard feelings bro
Yeah, that's Zeeshan! If the page is still loading after 5 seconds or so, I just stop it, and yeah most of the times it's GIFs like those. Terrible.
I'm not so sure this is a problem at all with browser speed. I'm pretty sure the browser only downloads one copy of the identical image URL, not one per post. It then places it in the cache.
Still wouldn't download twice. The image URL placed in the browser cache is from the source server, and independent of where on cfnet it was placed.
What does it matter? 50MB downloads that try to instantly play slow down the page. Youtube videos of the play aren't that big and they have audio AND they aren't autoplay. gifs are stupid
I was not disagreeing with you. I was addresses another comment by J.R. He said that the effect multiplies when people reply to the image and don't delete it in the response. And essentially blamed responders for contributing to the problem. This is not true, due to browser caching. I merely said that once an img is seen by your browser, additional postings of the same image will not make performance worse for the browser.
That isn't the case for me. I use my phone/tablet for game threads and if someone quotes that on a new page it slows it to a crawl just as bad as the first time.
If it is the first time you've ever seen the image, then you are right. Are you saying your browser doesn't support caching? I highly doubt that. If so, get another browser, that simple; otherwise, your phone is charging you extra data downloads vs caching...and that would be advice for anyone, whether you come to cfnet or not.
No, I'm saying it bogs down my phone/tablet when people post huge gifs. which sucks in a thread that moves fast and I reload often. If you like gifs and it doesn't mess with your phone, that is fine, I just don't.
I never disagreed with this. I said reloading the page or viewing the same img on another page will not bog down your browser, since it uses a cache. I wasn't disagreeing with your comment. I was responding to J.R.'s comment
psssshh just upgrade and get a phone/tablet/computer from this decade. IBMs and blackberrys been out of style
It's annoying as well on desktop as it mucks up the formating and readability of the page. I usually just exit out of the thread that has them
Well I am sorry guys. That's my fault and I apologize. I will do my best not to do that. Apologies guys
