Announcement New Feature - Random Pics From Community

[sumi]

Good! The number of times I went on BYH and got greeted a with a row of impolite pics of goats and other animals... It sure does grab your attention!

 

[casportpony]

I just saw a bunch of mine!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

It does seem like it might be adding a second or two to how long it takes to load the page... which I'm not fond of.

Let me know if y'all are noticing it being slower than usual. I'd hate to turn it off, but having that page load quickly is pretty important.

 

[sumi]

It's loading quick for me, Rob. And my internet is not super fast.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Wow! I like it!!

 

[casportpony]

It's loading quick for me, Rob. And my internet is not super fast.

x2. We have slow internet, but I don't mind waiting, I love this feature!

 

[casportpony]

What a great way to revive threads.

 

[BlackHackle]

I'm a little worried that it might be slowing down the loading of the forum index. If people are feeling like it is, then I'll need to remove it until we can figure out a way to optimize it better.

I think it is only going to matter on mobile data. All those images can run you dry. But it looks great!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I think it is only going to matter on mobile data. All those images can run you dry.

Actually, bandwidth should be barely noticeable since each image is only about 8kb in size... so even all 5 of them (40kb) is about 1/5 as big as a regular photo you'd get from a friend... and about 1/1,000 as big as a short 20 second video from youtube, FB, etc.

Any slowness would be caused from the script trying to randomly pull from millions of images uploaded to the system.

 

[TwoCrows]

Fun!