Data gobbled up...
I was thinking something kinda similar to TE'S idea about a photo thread, in a way, just wasn't sure how to present my concern/question.
I have mentioned I have to use my phone for everything I do while I'm out here in the beautiful USA. I use Verizon, and share a 15 gig family plan with My wife, and 3 youngsters. As you can imagine, it runs over each month and I'm trying to cut back on my data usage,but as we all know how addicting this site is.... It isn't easy. LOL
I REALLY LOVE THIS SITE!
My question is this... And maybe we can discuss some options...
Would it be possible to post photos and videos to a separate thread for each event? And or, maybe, start a new thread when a race event reachsca certain amount of posts, or length?
I suspect, my phone, having to receive a long thread filled with photos and such, a dozen or more times a day each time I want to read what someone posted in a reply... It's a bummer.
But it's my burden, I'll bear it. But, I'm gonna have to pick and choose what threads I read.
I do understand about what it might do to the site as well.
Just wanted to throw this out there...
Thanks for listening.
This is something I'm focusing on with the site redesign (coming soon)...with a focus more on mobile device performance because the fact is the future of online-ness is phones and tablets. Things need to be fast and mindful of that kind of stuff. Better performance benefits everyone, including desktop/laptop people.
Some of this would be solved by simple pagination of topics so all 100+ posts aren't loaded at once, something site doesn't do at all now. That was my bad decision that I plan on rectifying. I don't have hard numbers but it feels like the average number of posts per topic have increased a lot over the past year, so what was a decent solution back then doesn't apply now.
Also worth noting that if I'm able to host images myself through the site rather than requiring everyone to do their own PhotoBucket type thing, I'll be able to control the size of images better. In theory, that means smaller images that won't suck up as much bandwidth.
Bottom line is, as a web site owner, I don't want you to have to choose whether or not to load a page because you're worried about bandwidth. That shouldn't be the customer's burden. There are limits and it's not an easy egg to crack, but I know I can do better and that's my goal.