It's the individual pages, plus people quoting the gifs in replies. Once the NSFW gif thread ticked over to a new page, performance immediately improved.
#7
Dave
I wonder if I can set that thread to be X pages instead of the default 35. Let me check.
Would probably be better to set it to X posts per page rather than limiting the number of pages.
--Patrick
#9
Dave
Yeah that's what I meant. And I can't. I can set the number of posts per page for the whole board but not individual subs or threads. Let me see if there's anything else I could do.
Yeah that's what I meant. And I can't. I can set the number of posts per page for the whole board but not individual subs or threads. Let me see if there's anything else I could do.
Is there anything that converts a(n animated) gif into a jpeg or something for the quoted version? We have the ability to do preview/thumbnail, so it should at least be possible...
--Patrick
#11
GasBandit
Yeah, I looked into changing the posts-per-page limit for that thread the last time we had this discussion. Couldn't find a way to do it.
But just recently, I do think we had a breakthrough when I discovered that quoting a gif/gifv/mp4 caused a massive resource drain (I am guessing because of the resizing and transparency/fading involved), so if people can avoid including the gifs and whatnot in their quote, it should help a lot.
#12
Shakey
Is there a plugin that forces you to click on the gif to load it?
Nope. The only reason GIFVs and MP4s and WEBMs work at all on the forum is already because of a plugin. And believe me, they hamper system performance waaaay less than actual vanilla GIFs.