Nirvana: As far as I know there is no way to hide someone for everyone exept for the crew I guess. On the other hand side you can get mod there to see hiden posts. Confusing that all

Nirvana: This was discussed a while ago and i think Fencers answer was something along these lines.
If you are the Big Boss of a Fellowship, you only have people in there that you choose, and hopefully get on with, and that follow the rules you set down.
You have the power to remove anyone, who does not abide by your rules.

This i would normally agree with, but with one exception, when you have been left in charge of someones Fellowship for a reason of absence. Here it might be nice to have 'suspend a person' option where all there Fellowship privileges are halted (no read/write boards, joining Tournaments & Teams etc....).

Nirvana: Yes you can hide someone in a fellowship from others , BB and moderators will still see them though .........but woulsnt it be easier to remove them from the fellowship

Fencer: Look what i found

I want to receive an occasional BrainKing newsletter to my e-mail account

Whens the first one

MadMonkey: When someone sends it.

can we expect better days ahead?

Jim Dandy: Yes, i was not going to mention it, but the last few days, in fact since the Data Archiving it has been real bad at times.

I would of thought that would make it faster, like cleaning & defragging

Jim Dandy: I don't see any problems and I prepare an article which should be the ultimate answer to everyone, once and forever.

Fencer: Without getting into an old conversation, we are trying to be positive (well i am lol)

The site has been great for ages now, BUT since about the time of the Archive, i have a dramatic slowdown in brainking response time.
All other sites, well, the other 7 open in Tabs at present load pages between 1.07 and 3.61 seconds.
Brainking varies wildly though, i can get a games page load in from 1.7 secs which is great, however, any other pages seem to take anywhere from 4 to 20 secs

Just an annoying observation, what has started this again

I'm getting a "denied access by publisher of page." Hope this is a temporary glitch not exclusive to me.

MadMonkey: I wish mine would load in 20secs:( Im on the fastest connection speed I can be on and it is still slow....other sites are fine.

MadMonkey: My continuous and thorough tests say the average page generation time is about 0.1 - 0.3 seconds, and this is the result based on measurements from the last 6 months. Whatever happens OUTSIDE BrainKing, i.e. on the way to the user's web browser, is not (and cannot be) our problem. Our power ends at the outgoing port of our firewall.

Bernice: You are wrong in both parts of your statement because 1) you don't have the fastest connection speed (it is obvious), 2) other sites are not fine. Time has come to accept it.

Fencer: Am I wrong in feeling that your state of the union will include lowered expectations regarding site speed?

Fencer: ok, as i said i am trying to be helpful

I sit here and watch all these messages (and more) appear lots of times in rapid succession while a page is loading:
waiting for brainking.com
reading data from brainking.com
waiting for i.brainking.com
connecting to i.brainking.com
connected to i.brainking.com
read brainking.com
transferring data from brainking.com (this stays and waits the longest)

and all this time the page is still loading, and Fasterfox counter is timing it.

How come with NO other site i have this problem, i never get to read those messages anywhere else as it happens so fast and the page, HOWEVER big it is loaded.

Again, i am trying to be helpful and giving you any information i think may help track the answer as i know i am not the only one, and like i said the site has been amazingly fast up until a few days ago

7.87 secs to post that and complete page load

mine are:
waiting for brainking.com, read brainking.com, and
transferring data from brainking.com.......in that order (with a snow-white page)

Fencer: Im sorry....I didnt realize that you can see what I am connected to ....I HAVE THE FASTEST CONNECTION...that is available to me (ADSL).....and other sites ARE fine....you arent sitting where I am sitting and TIME HAS COME TO ACCEPT IT....yes you are right....ACCEPT that your site isnt the best there is, and other sites are faster.......
Jim Dandy:looks like it :)

MadMonkey:you are wrong of course LOL...he wont admit to failings..........

Bernice: I just want to make it clear to Fencer there is a problem somewhere and from EVERYTHING i can see the only place it happens is here

srnity: I wonder what the i.brainking thing i get as well is then ??

Bernice: Maybe the answer is throwing more coal in the fire,these internts are just a bunch of tubes,right?

Jim Dandy: Im not coming into that one HAHAH

MadMonkey: Your post is meaningful and you will get the answer (hint, hint!). And, actually, you have answered yourself because you say that the delay happens at the "transferring data from brainking.com" status. Yes, transferring! Not a page generating, no waiting for a response, just transferring of the data containing the web page source. You describe the situation AFTER the page is sent from BrainKing to your browser, not BEFORE. Once again, that's what we cannot resolve because it's not technically possible.
There are always many different possibilities of network related problems which can cause this kind of a slowdown, including DNS lookup errors, browser memory leaks, international line overload, a glitch in ISP network switches, wrongly updated caches of proxy servers etc. I don't think it would make sense to list all of them.
As I have said, I want to post a detailed article to the blog soon. Be patient.

Bernice: If you won't stop repeating the same complaints over and over again - will you at least stop shouting?

Fencer: LOL...and all these bad things only happens to Brain King's transfer?..you are too good Filip!!

Bernice: There is one thing which I absolutely don't understand (and I am definitely not the only one) - what are you still doing on BrainKing? Isn't is a good time to leave the site at last and find another one where they don't know you yet?

Fencer: OK, i will except what you say

Just so weird that up to a few days ago the site transfer / loading whatever we call it here was as fast as every pother place.

So my question is, what has changed

Oh yeah, and whats the difference between brainking.com & i.brainking.com ?

Andersp: Yeah... And this slowness is applied to the page transfer from BrainKing only to a certain group of users? What do you think why I don't have those issues? Because I am living relatively "close" to Prague and my ISP obviously has a good connection to CZ, or because I am on a mysterious BrainKing white list of people being serverd promplty?

Gordon Shumway: I just "tested" 3 different Prag sites...all of them were flying....same distance bud :)

Fencer: because I love "giving it to ya" and watching you squirm LOL

You have become expert at it over the past 5-6 years

Fencer: I'm no psychologist,but people develop an attachment to sites,she's clearly not happy,but she deseves a degree of respect.

Fencer: and besides...I paid the money, Im entitled to service...or isnt service part of your user agreement?

just wanted to say THX 4 da site fencer!!

i could neveerrrr really find many of da chess variants dat i have found here on other sites (i guess i didnt really loook tho cuz of IYT and stuff like that) lol

anyways thanks 2 u and da other important ppl dat have 2 do something w/da site :DD

Bernice: Obviously you are not smart enough to understand the simplest arguments. Which is, to my amusement, confirmed by your every post. Keep doing that.

Jim Dandy: Maybe a translation of "respect" to Fencers language could be a good idea?

Jim Dandy: Every respectable person deserves a respect. Unfortunately it does not apply to Bernice. Hell, I have made this mistake again but sometimes I cannot resist.

ChessChampion: Thank you.

Fencer:

p.s. Did you miss my question, brainking.com & i.brainking.com, what is the difference ?

Fencer: At least people know I mean what I say...unlike you....And "simple arguements" are for simple people...you are in your own company

Bernice: Better be a honest "Troll" than an a ...oooops!!!!!  cant say that!!

MadMonkey: Sorry. The i.brainking.com server provides all images and the brainking.com is still the BrainKing as we know it - the HTML code and similar things.
Are there any particular images you have a problem with?

Andersp: LOL

Fencer: ahhh thanks

No not really, i have the odd smiley that does not show itself, but shows as a group of a few pixels in a block, but apart from that all BK images are fine

Only problem i had yesterday was with the Alquerque board. I know it is large anyway, but for some reason the board once loaded, parts of it looked as if they were not loaded, if that makes sense. Like not completely there.
Is there no way to make smaller Alquerque, Jarmo and Ludo boards ? (yes i know, time lol)

Andersp: Due to the disappearance of Action Points, as he explained just two sentences further on. Which makes sense to me...

Was my question to difficult Filip? 

Andersp: I have a feeling the press conference is over.

Filip doesn't "Feed the Trolls" he is a troll himself. He never fails to troll through this site for "certain user" posts to respond to.

If the i brainking is taking so long to load doesn't that suggest that maybe there are too many images?

When people from both groups ie: "certain users" and "not you "  are saying the same thing then it would suggest that something needs to be checked somewhere and abuse of the "certain users" groups does not negate the fact that the "not you " group is having the same problems with this site.