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Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: jepinto on March 22, 2003, 10:35:00 PM: As ou have read....we would like to "speed up" the forum. But what/where are fast forums?

Give me apples to compare with my apples
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Bernie on March 22, 2003, 10:45:00 PM: Braeburn
Cameo®
Cortland
Empire
Fuji
Gala Ginger Gold
Golden Delicious
Granny Smith
HoneyCrisp
Idared
Jonagold Jonathan
McIntosh
Newtown Pippin
Pink Lady®
Red Delicious
Rome Beauty
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Gary S on March 22, 2003, 11:03:00 PM: Jennie,

I don't visit many forums other than TS and MacFixit but here's some I have in my bookmarks.

http://www.mac-upgrade.com/cgi-bin/forums/cutecast.pl

http://www.applelinks.com/cgi-app/boards/U...passCookie=true

http://forums.macnn.com/
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Bernie on March 22, 2003, 11:17:00 PM: Mac Forums you Say GaryS ? Take a look here for good X into I asked the site to ad a link to tS See if you can find the TS link http://www.mactoolbox.com/

[ 03-23-2003, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: Bernie ]
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Bernie on March 22, 2003, 11:24:00 PM: Here Gary S
http://www.osxfactor.com/
Good night. ZZzzzzzzzzzzz OH . Hi Jennie Cya Manana. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 'oo'
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: snuffysbluff on March 23, 2003, 12:30:00 AM: This is definitly a "fast" one.
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Paddy on March 23, 2003, 12:51:00 AM: The CuteCast board on MacUpgrade.com is fast - and free. However, it runs on UNIX or NT. Not LINUX.

Another one I found: http://www.yabbforum.com/

It runs on LINUX. You can check out a few of their forums if you go to their forum, and then click on some of the poster's URL's.

http://www.yabbforum.com/community/?board=graph_temp

Not quite as fast as CuteCast, but not bad. Checked out the biggest threads I could find.

It's free too, if you leave various things alone.
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: jepinto on March 23, 2003, 07:18:00 AM: quote:
Originally posted by snuffysbluff:
This is definitly a "fast" one.
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Bill on March 23, 2003, 11:13:00 PM: Got to second Jennies
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Bill on March 23, 2003, 08:32:00 PM: Bernie! Those are some links you posted!
I checked them out before and got lost zipping around the inner links.
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Paddy on March 23, 2003, 08:49:00 PM: I liked this link from the OSXFactor site:

Army's Apple Shines in the Desert

quote:
Chasteen said the motto of the army's IT department is, "We fear change."

So...any chance this thread will get back around to answering Jenny's question?

[ 03-23-2003, 09:52 PM: Message edited by: Paddy ]
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: jb on March 24, 2003, 02:43:00 AM: Bernie,

The TS reference on the http://www.mactoolbox.com/ site is:

1- In the right column, select Troubleshooting in page 3.

2- At the very bottom of page 3, Techsurvivors is second to the last reference.

jb

PS. I would appreciate the next time you list apple references that you also list the URL's! (Chuckle! Chuckle!)
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Highmac on March 24, 2003, 06:10:00 AM: Bernie - how could you list apples and leave out the best-flavoured (IMHO) of them all, the cox's orange pippin (You did ask for it, jb), while including the ghastly Golden Tasteless (ours usually come from France... I'll stop there). Thanks to New Zealand, we can get Cox's for most of the year.

Personally I have no problem with speed on TS - even on dial-up at home it seems as fast, if not faster, than others I go to.

[ 03-24-2003, 07:35 AM: Message edited by: Highmac ]
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: Bernie on March 24, 2003, 07:37:00 AM: Yeah Bill. I get sorta dizzy at the site when moving my curser over links and test messages popup all over As for the Apples. Orange Pippon huh? Hardly Anyone has heard of a Gravenstien Apples. Ummm Good Cookin Apples. Usually find them up in Northern California. Ah! What the hey! What do i know.
LOL
Title: What are fast forums?
Post by: sandbox on March 25, 2003, 02:15:00 AM: Jen, http://forums.macnn.com/ on it’s own server, running vBulletin 2.2.9
direct link to a selected forum, just like most folks get here. On a DSL it’s complete in 7 seconds.
http://forums.macnn.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=65

Now go-to this thread and open it up, a full page with all the icons and knobs, and it took me 35 seconds to open it.
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?threadid=147406

Your mileage may vary.

Personally I would suggest closing the review page below the reply box for starters, it takes an additional 15 seconds to open and post a reply. There's a lot of time wasted on the action smileys, larger text, and maybe (High rez)heavy HTML Banners, quite possibly a shave and a trim would lighten the load.