Tyson Rayles said:
What is with all these time limits?
Well, sir. You see. all these "Neato things" including the things we had on the Original Gauge. Take up 2 things... Memory space & Bandwidth.
Memory.. In the Gigabytes, all costs money to have... & use as downloads. Yes every time you load a page it is bandwidth. If you use "phone lines" it takes a page of yours about 30 seconds to "download into your computer" That is where the temporary internet files come from
On my cable service it takes about 10 seconds for the same page. You see the "math"?? If we have 300 people looking at 50 pages a day - that's 15000 downloads a day. Now in a month that = 450,000 downloads. That takes money!
Now, about the "Time limits" when you or I enter the gauge - it takes your "You last visited" time and subtracts that from your "Present time" & posts all the "New posts" into a folder for you to view. There's another bunch of downloads & a folder that is just yours. There are another 300 Regulars here" More downloads - more folders. Now even if you Dont access the new post files - the folder is there - So, theres a time limit put on the folder that "erases" it after 15 minutes.
So that there aren't a huge amount of folders out there all the time.
It took me a long time to learn all this, but just think of the "pages" being like letters in your mailbox. Every time you go to Photog & look at a page that has a bunch of pics. You're downloading each pic Plus Each Post's Text Plus all the buttons & graphics. Now that would be a huge amount of "Letters" (Packets in Net terms) that would be in your mailbox and then you click on a second page & it starts all over again.
So the more memory we use, (That's why we dont want animated gifs) the more the owners have to pay.
This is a critical thing when designing web sites.
Nobody needs to spend more money they don't need too - like gas prices for instance
