TarantinoFan: As far as discussion boards go you can adjust the number of messages per page - if you use 5, it should get about the same size as the main page...

As for the speed issues, this issue has arisen in the portuguese board recently as well... just like here, there doesn't seem to be any noticeable pattern for who gets to suffer it and who doesn't. For instance, my brother and I live a mile away from each other, have the same ISP and connection speed. We log in to the site severall times through the day and he's complained of problems every now and then. I've never noticed any particularly slow time... go figure

TarantinoFan: do a google search on aussie sights...there are a lot there, Im sure there would be one for nix.

or2ak.com: No I haven't bought the system mechanic yet. An issue of funds and conversion rates etc. It probably is worth it but I would much prefer to be able to buy it from my own country. Will keep searching and see what I can turn up.

Jim Dandy: Me too. I have been coming in here and only playing enough moves to save me from time out. I shut up over the last couple of days on boards because they take too long to load and the frustration is just not worth it. I got better things to do with my time than wait for a game to load. But I agreed to the challenge of a game with my opponent and don't want to let them down.

As for the future..............time will only tell!

Jim Dandy:Yeah, I still see slowness, but I play most of my games in the evening and the site seems much more responsive.  I just played ~50 games in 20 minutes.  Some things that have helped are the new 'light mode' plus you can turn off both left and right side bars.  This allows you concentrate on your games and just see your fellowships and gunk when you go to the main page.  For me right now, it is livable but there clearly are still site/network issues holding things up.

TarantinoFan:

Sorry to hear you're still having issues with slowness.  As usual Its fine on my side,  I'm lucky for living on top of the world? Maybe it makes a difference  LOL
Maybe that BIG island you live on has a bad connection?  hehe 

Did you purchase that system mechanic I mentioned?  It does a lot of good for the PC
Well worth the $$$ and will come in handy for years to come. I been using it for about 4 years and already got my moneys worth 

redfrog: It has been degrees of slow for a number of weeks,sometimes faster than the day before,but still slow for a quite awhile.Apparently some users aren't experiencing these issues,that may be fact,but it is also fact that many have been have been experiencing varying levels of slow for some time.I can deal with slow,if I know it is in the midst of being corrected,but if this is the present and future................

Jim Dandy: if one were to check out my profile - there is proof that its different per user.... it seems pretty common to hear that some users are experiencing vastly different connection speeds than other - maybe im used to a slow connection - im not sure - but it seemed pretty fast to me this afternoon....

TarantinoFan: Regardless of the site being fixed,fixed,or in the process of being fixed,it is unmanagable for ME to play more than a dozen or so games daily presently.

Uninvited: No-one has posted because they are all finally resigned to crawling through their games at a snails pace. Why bother asking for something to be done when time and again the request is ignored. The site is still running slow for me and others I have spoken to as well but there seems absolutely no point in talking about it anymore.

I have one question for Fencer though. It was talked about a while ago that the site slowed down when Liquid was collecting data. Is there a possibility that this has happened again?

Well, I would suppose that a post saying 'Am I banned on this board' would technically be on topic.


New topic - General question to everyone:
How are the new Team tourneys coming along? Are you signing up for any? Is there any you'd like to see?

Two whole days without an off topic post.  Thanks for breaking the silence Uninvited.  Lets see how many more days we can go without any off topic posts.

srnity: Thanks I know now I'm not banned.
I'll stop talking about this because I know it's off topic.

Uninvited: & just a word of advice, you might get "invited" more often without the scary cape thing

It has been about three days since anyone has posted here.

I'm just checking to see if I been banned from here and don't know it.

the last 4 posts from dicepro and Jim Dandy have been moved to General Chat

Fencer: Actually, I never said I'd be able to check it in an hour... seems to be fixed now, anyway :)

Fencer: now, you know we all want it NOW!!!!

pauloaguia: So you suggest that I should fix it within an hour.

Fencer: That's what I thought, but I did see a red 9 for my waiting ponds on my main page... I should have another pond waiting in the next hour, I'll check it again by then.

pauloaguia: It's supposed to show no red numbers (except the one next to the Message box link).

When in the MainPage I could see the red numbers for my ponds but not for my games (something changed since yesterday when I could see neither).
Yet, when on the pond page, I could see none.

Is this supposed to be like that? It doesn't look very consistent to me...

or2ak.com: I see them now ... but I think I switch back to normal mode ... I don*t like that I do not see my opponents BKR ... and I think it*s good to know how strong player stands against me

P-G: Looks like I forgot to remove that option. Action points are no longer used.

I didn't found a single clue about "action points" in Help or FAQ. I am curious to learn what are they.
This option is in "Settings --> General", near the bottom of the page.

Who still cannot see the pond list?

MadMonkey: It shows a list of all team tournaments where your fellowship is (or was) participating.

When we click on the new Fellowship team tournaments in Fellowships, what exactly is it meant to show
The default is set to ALL, but it does not show all when you get there.
By process of Elimination, it seems to show the Tournaments we have signed for already. After having a little play, by clicking Show when set to all, it does show all Team Tournaments.

Nothing major, just a little anomaly

It's moving the pages much faster for me also...thank you!

MadMonkey:will look next time I play...maybe I have to set it for that....will look anyway :)

**edit** it takes me to the next "time" game...I like to play my normal games first and leave the tournaments for last........no worries at least for the moment it is slightly improved, but isnt as fast as it used to be....but an improvement never-the-less

Antje: "Settings"

curious about lightweight.. i cant find it? what is it and where is it?

nevermind, i found it after all

Still a little choppy, but no white pages, loading MUCH quicker, and almost two glorious hours without getting the proverbial "boot" My two cents & Night All ...

Bernice: I've still got the "go to" boxes (with my choices still intact), but not the box of my "listed" games , maybe you need to change the settings on that one, maybe?

Bernice: is there no drop box then, i tried lightweight out and i had a drop box to goto next game , or do you mean in ponds ?

or2ak.com: im using lightweight, I can see my ponds, but am getting sick of going back to the main page everytime to play the next game....seems like a waste to me

trohat:

Yep, lightwieght mode is awesome, except I dont see my ponds either  :(

It's almost 7pm here, 148 people on BK & I am seeing a difference - Thank You Fencer

trohat: What do you mean you can't see your ponds in light mode? On the main page, my ponds show up.

AbigailII: I found one missing feature in lightweight mode ... I don*t see my ponds

pauloaguia: I am sorry to say that, but I tried yesterday BrainKing from IE7 and FF together, and when BrainKing was offline for some time, like half a minute or so (as you write), after that time IE7 got online much faster then FF ... (I was refreshing the page, and FF still said something like "page unavailable" but I was already playing in IE7 ...)
so I prefer IE7 again and again ...

AbigailII: awesome, thanks

nodnarbo: external stylesheets work in lightweight mode.

Fencer: do external style sheets work with the 'lightweight mode' or do they act in place of it?

redfrog: I tried it, but it's fast right now without it so I'm not noticing anything different

redfrog: I switched 10 minutes ago or so, and it seems to be noticable faster. But it's too early to say for sure that it's the setting. And the data transfer is still a bit "jerky". And I haven't found a missing feature yet.

Has anyone tried it yet? My connection is running good without it - but i wonder about those that could benefit....

crosseyed: timeout doesn't necessarily mean slow. it can mean the site was unavailable at the time. I noticed that sometimes BrainKing goes offline for about a minute (most people have come to associate that with upgrades to the site or posts on BrainKing.info, though Fencer never admited any of that afaik).
If you're using IE7 you will most likelly notice a difference between IE and Firefox (in FF's favor), so you should definitelly repeat the test at another time...

crosseyed: Im using firefox , a little slow at times but working ok for me