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Since the website has slowed down to a crawl, implement more JS to reduce page loads.

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  • 15-05-2020 12:25pm
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    On mobile Touch, it can take something like five page loads to get to a different forum. Store it as HTML or load it on the fly without doing full page loads.

    If I want to preview this post, it requires a page load, for no reason. Just write some simply JS that fills in a preview box.

    To see the next set page of posts, or next list of topics, I have to do a full page load instead of an endless scroll. I implemented most of an endless scroll here out of boredom one day so I don't see why boards.ie couldn't manage it.

    Reporting a post.. Full page load. Probably about two hundred unnecessary database hits to load a simple report form.

    There are many examples of wasted page loads all across this site which could be gotten rid of with a couple of days of basic JS coding. If my website was crawling, and I had loads of unnecessary page loads, I'd get rid of them. It's been how the web works for over a decade.


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