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I don't care, but I'm intrigued by some of the weird and 'wonderful' ways of these forums. So I went to a 'Top Participants' box and clicked 'show all participants'. I wonder if I'm the first to bother with this - it really is extraneous fluff.

Anyway, rather than all participants, I got the names of the top three only. Followed by a list of posts by a whole range of entirely different people. I'd really love to get rid of these speed-consuming twiddly bits, that don't even work as advertised, and get these forums stripped back to what is quick and useful.

Phos_four_dots · Answer

I've looked at that too, Kath, and have been just as perplexed.

Now, I know I may be a little more rash and brash and impulsive than some, and I'm very possible talking out my manhole here, but as I'm so far given to understand, these forums are built of modules that are supposed to be reasonably easy to turn on & off, or disable/enable, or add/remove.

Were it me in the drivers seat, I be disabling just about everything except what it takes to run threads and dialogues here. Strip 'er down to the barest of bones.

That would be avatars & profile display, the ignoble points system, the level meters, history, "More Like This", "Top Participants", shoot, I'd even try to get rid of the "Full Text Editor" to see how it went....all that stuff. I'd like to see how things run without the fluff.

Then I'd start adding them back in. First one...test it, tweak it, see how things go, see what effect it has on performance. Then another, and so on.

I'm so bloody sick of the slowness I can't even understand why the hell I keep checking in several times a day.

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