Czuch: yes if fencer gives the option and it is not a css change but an actual cut the data out change it will speed things up.

Hopefully fencer will make a xml version of the site then I can write a java program to let you play games with no delay at all.

mctrivia: Thanks, keep up the good work too!

Czuch: still if you do not want to see them this is a great way to go in the mean time. I have implemented the commands:
nogame
noprofile (if you use this you will need to use http://brainking.com/en/Settings to change it back)
nostats
noinfo

but they are not part of the easy to use builder yet.

Czuch: Is it only certain pages that take that long? I know I mentioned this on another board a while ago, but I don't remember where now.

Try and notice if it is JUST Brainking pages where there is a text box on the page. If so, clicking on "Change smileys" above the text box, and then EMPTYING out all the smileys (so that when you click or hover over the smile next to "Message:", NOTHING shows up in the box) worked to speed things back to normal for me. (You MUST remember to click "Activate user smilies")

After Fencer added one of the latest batches of smilies, suddenly any pages where there was a text box, went from taking 3 seconds, to more than 15 seconds! It was very frustrating. (And at the time, puzzling, because other Brainking pages were loading as quickly as ever.) After I changed this everything was fine for me.

Of course, if you are talking about ALL Brainking pages, then what I suggest will not help.

rod03801: Well it was right after I used the Mc thing to take away my fellowships list and the time/date and the tips, in the no font mode, is that what you did too?

Czuch: Sorry, I had read this board before Feature Requests, so I wasn't following the thread correctly. At the time I posted here, I hadn't seen that your pages were loading slower after whatever you had tried.

So, ignore me! LOL

So, no, I haven't tried anything that's being discussed. I'm at work so can't play around with that stuff. I like both columns, so I probably wouldn't remove any of it anyways. (And I have ZERO problems now with pages loading badly)

rod03801: I am using my script to remove boards mainly so I could test it and my pages load just as fast as before. My server is off site so It would not be any faster for me then anyone else in North America.

Ping test:
mctrivia.com - 105ms
braingking.com - no response

mctrivia: You will not get a ping result from brainking as Liquid has disabled it for security reasons (well, so Fencer said lol)

MadMonkey: I figured as much lots of people do disable ping

mctrivia: Would that be true no matter what we run or how they are configured?

Czuch: not sure what you are asking. There is not time difference between what options you check to hide.

mctrivia: I meant does it matter if i run firefox and you run IE, would that make a difference at all?

Czuch: I run both IE7 and Firefox. Brainking site is to big of a memory hog to work well with IE. It does not even do to well in firefox some times. But access speed to servers should not differ the only reason firfox seems faster is it starts displaying while it is still downloading(hence the jumping around)

mctrivia:
can using your style sheet get rid of the left hand side column to ?

Snoopy: in a moment it will

mctrivia: I dont know how much work it involves, but could you make the columns a "hide" option instead of just having them removed?

Czuch: I can not modify the code of BK so I can not add links making them visible or invisible at will all I can do is change the visibility, colour, and placement of the objects in BK

mctrivia: Okay, thanks!

mctrivia: Actually maybe you could play a little with the :hover selector to make it work. The end result could get a little weird (page jumping back and forth as you move your mouse) and not all browsers support it properly, but you can get some neat effects from it.
I think I'll try to work something out of it if I have the time, later tonight...

pauloaguia: if you have the css code that can be added to the start of the file I can add it to my program as an option.

noleft and noright are now active I will work on the cosmetics later.

mctrivia:
i found that if i went to use both together only one worked

Snoopy: both what? no left and no right should work together

mctrivia: maybe that's because the NoRight option actually produces a noleft in the generated URL

pauloaguia: what a silly mistake I will fix it now

mctrivia: fixed

mctrivia:
thanks works great now