Idea to make head-fi faster and costs lower

[Michgelsen]

I was shocked to see that I downloaded 2 MB between the moment I clicked on my head-fi bookmark and the moment the loading was finally complete. I find this too much. When the home page is complete, you can scroll and scroll and scroll down. I don't believe anybody does this, which means that there is way too much useless information there. Deleting that makes the site load a LOT faster and also saves a lot of bandwidth. I am aware of the fact that a lot of images there are hosted by imageshack, but I am sure that head-fi itself as well can save a lot of bandwidth (and thus money) by making the home page simpler and lighter. It should be possible to have a beautiful home page that weighs under 200kB, right?

 

[Kirosia]

Why don't you just bookmark the forum index page?

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/index.php

 

[Michgelsen]

Good idea!

 

[Dzjudz]

That's what I do

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[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirosia /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why don't you just bookmark the forum index page? http://www.head-fi.org/forums/index.php

Thats what I do, which works fine for me.
Usually end up at around 400KB, compared to the 2MB you mention for the front page.

 

[Quaddy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirosia /img/forum/go_quote.gif Why don't you just bookmark the forum index page? http://www.head-fi.org/forums/index.php

x2

 

[ecclesand]

DOH! I've always had the index page bookmarked and didn't even realize there WAS a front page.

 

[rxc]

lol, I haven't seen the front page in a long time.

 

[blessingx]

Wow, 2MB for a page load breaks a few internet conventions.