[Discuss] Too many messages!

[Josiah Allen]

On 11/11/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There are too many messages at the large Atamara tournament. This is
> not a complaint that I can't read the messages (I simply ignore most
> of them), it's a complaint about the actual size of the page. In order
> to double check a recent message I have to load all the messages for
> the past day, which is currently just short of half a megabyte of
> text. I have a fast connection, and it still takes a good few seconds
> to load. By my quick calculations, it would take someone on dial-up
> about 2 minutes to load.
>
> I don't know how many BM users are on dial-up, but I imagine it's
> enough for this to be a significant concern.
>
> Short of reforming the entire message system, I think the best
> solution is an option for viewing recent messages from a period of
> less than a day. How about either "from last 3 hours" or if it's
> possible to code easily "last 50 messages". (The exact numbers can be
> whatever Tom considers appropriate, of course.)
>
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heh, indeed, I just ctrl-f for messages I might actually need to read, like
one's containing 'realm'.

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