Download Thread Hack

[Loony BoB]

Originally posted by Dr Unne
So now downloading threads will use a little less bandwidth and a whole lot more database queries and CPU cycles to generate these text-pages, right? Unless making it easier to download threads convinces more people they should be downloading more threads, in which case we'll end up with MORE bandwidth being used. Oh well. I particularly like the way the text isn't hard-wrapped at 80 columns, so that opening it in a browser looks very terrible. *negativty negativity negativity*

Nobody's stopping you from saving the thread.

[Citizen Bleys]

Anybody still having problems with Quick Reply, post a screenshot; I'm using Quick Reply to post this. I can't troubleshoot a problem if I can't duplicate it.

Or try Mozilla. I haven't tried to look on IE, because I've left IE trying to load a page on eyesonff.com for an hour and it still hasn't loaded. Mozilla's the only way I can browse EoFF *at all*, so if you're using another browser, that could be the problem. Yes.

Be sure to re-select Quick Reply, those of you who don't read the announcements, because at the time I'm posting this, I am the one and only member who is *NOT* on EoFF Default.

[Loony BoB]

I used IE and it worked fine. Although I still think Quick Reply looks hideous in EoFF, what with the white background standing out like a light bulb.

EDIT: *points to the arrow he attached on the previous page* You asked me to make it! I did!

[Citizen Bleys]

hold your horses, I'm at school and FTP's blocked here.

[crono_logical]

um, Quick reply looks fine to me (as in as it was before it broke )

[Loony BoB]

Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
hold your horses, I'm at school and FTP's blocked here.

*blinks* ...I should probably remember that I have FTP access more often. Here, it's uploaded. *falls over* I didn't overwrite icon4.gif since it's used in other templates.

http://www.eyesonff.com/forums/images/icons/arrow.gif

[Citizen Bleys]

done (Well, still in the process of doing it on ed's technicolor nightmare)

EDIT: OK, showthread on ed's technicolor nightmare is *gone*, and I don't have the data to restore it.

EDIT2: Just copied the template from the Quick Reply scheme...something might not be right, though; anybody using ed's technicolor nightmare, let me know if something's screwy so that maybe I can fix it.

[Loony BoB]

I bet Bleys loves having three different styles in EoFF.

[Citizen Bleys]

[Loony BoB]

Ooh, I like the way YOU stab me, Bleys... ;D Faster, baby. FASTER!

[The Man]

D'ya think maybe you should announce this so people know it exists? I never even noticed those icons in the top-right corner of the showthread template until just now. I thought you'd just deleted that part of the template completely, 'cause I was expecting to see it at the bottom of the thread in a box or something. And it's not really obvious what those icons are there for. D:

[Loony BoB]

Nah, I don't think we need to encourage everyone to use up the bandwidth... if it does do that like Unne pointed out. Not many people do this stuff, and to be honest, if they wanted to have a better way they should look here anway =)

...it's kind of obvious because it kind of tells you what they're for when you hover the mouse over 'em xP

[The Man]

The hard part, of course, is knowing that they're there. xP

[Loony BoB]

If they want to know if there's a function that does it, they can ask, and we'll tell them. =P It's not worth the announcement, it'd only encourage the masses to suck up all the 'width when we're trying to cut it down.

[Citizen Bleys]

Okay, never use "'width" instead of bandwidth again.