@unknownuser said:
Seems the search engine is very very partial!
The search engine is Google's custom search. As far as I know we do not have direct effect on what is indexed and what is not indexed by it. The Google algorythm decides... (anyhow I'll have a look into it if there is any way to influence it)
For search tasks what require more accuracy and not flexibility the "old" PhpBB search engine is still available at:
@aristosontwerp said:
Where should I send it to? Can I zip it (don't know yet, if that helps though.)?
PM sent.
At the weekend I made some experiments with COLLADA and X3DOM. It would be interesting to do some tests with a huge model like yours. However these technologies are usable only in the latest Firefox, Chrome and Safari browsers, it might be interesting to give it a try.
If you are willing to share your model, I might try it tonight...
JQL: May I ask you what kind of a virus protection software is installed on your PC? Some of them tend to remove files they consider dangerous without any warning..... Of couse if this is the case you can find a trace of this removal in the viruskiller's log...
My experience is that sometimes performance drop is related to overheating either of the GPU or the CPU. The cooling elements collect dust during the years what causes overheating. The GPU or CPU to prevent it's own damage from overheating reduces it's speed to reduce heat production. That results in decreased performance. If this is the case, a careful cleaning of the cooling elements of the CPU and GPU restores the previous performance.
Text changed to "Check for updates". After cache erase you should see the change.
@tig said:
It's not a cache issue my side...
It's empty.
Here's what I still see in IE8 screengrabbed...
The td's for the desc & buttoncontainer need tovertical-align:top;?
Remember I can't see the current html - you have recently stopped right-clicking view-source in the dialog!
So I'm working off an older copy !
Please try it now with cache refreshed.
What I see on the cover is a lady who is enjoying her holiday at the beach. She discovered while browsing the net on her mobil device that version II is out! 
@frederik said:
.... some inconsistence with some fonts...
I.e. the links in the bottom of the page (Board index, Members) seem to be using a Times New Roman font, while the rest of the site is using Arial/Helvetica...
Thank you for noticing. The bottom links are fixed now. Please let me know if you find such inconsistensy anywhere else.
@mwm5053 said:
.... but the New topics in Chrome and Safari brings up nothing....
May I ask you when you logged out before experiencing this?
"New posts" should show the posts that have been submitted since the time of the last visit (the last logout time). I have to admit that in case of the previous design I almost never logged out. But now this new logout icon is so attractive, that I frequently click on it when I leave the forums. Therefore I have a very short new posts list. Might be that your case is similar to mine?
@tig said:
But even the Site Search doesn't filter by author ?
Until Monday (when Rich fixes the search) here is a direct link for use in case of urgent search needs. http://sketchucation.com/forums/search.php
Thank you very much Ken for your reply. Yes, I think Photobucket had some issues lately and it won't appear every time. (Might be that some of their servers are overloaded temporary.)
The maximum attachment size for the the forums at the moment is 2MB. I think it should be large enough for most of the images.
@box said:
My comments and links are only meant as information and should in no way be read as criticism.
Of course and thank you very much for the information.
Just a short addition:
Testing with the webpagetest.org pagespeed test, the quoted 3D printing topic page downloads in 13.264s. The art of Sketchup topic sometimes times out because of the Photobucket server unable to serve so much images paralelly. Other times it downloads in about 30s. But definitely the cause of the timeout is the Photobucket server.
@box said:
Have a look at this thread, it was the first I noticed it on and it's mostly links to articles rather than image servers.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=51084
Thank you Box for the link. This page you linked, contains about 5,147 KB data compared to the page where this post is written contains about 818 KB. The other page also initiates 122 http requests to several servers. If any of those servers are overloaded that delays the rendering of the whole page.
Let's make a quick calculation: Let's say we're on an average internet connection with an average download speed of 250 KB/sec. Only for the data content of that page to be downloaded takes 20 seconds at such an average connection. And we haven't yet spoken about the delays what are caused by the http requests and about the slower servers.
Of course there are possible solutions to improve the situation. I'll try to find the most effective one. But IMO the pbhpBB software is not designed to link hundred images per topic page...
One possible solution could be to reduce the number of posts per page in topics wehere the number of image links grow above a limit... Opinion about this?
Now I see your other post and yes, an other possible solution could be to display place-holder images in case of outer links....
The problem is definitely with Photobucket. Here is an image link from the "The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy" topic:
http://i593.photobucket.com/albums/tt12/ken28875/Simcity%205/R_gen_W2D2_townhouse_08_01_DetailedConcept_zpscdc8cecf.jpg~original
It is supposed to point to a .jpg image. Instead it serves a whole .html page. On the 7th page of the "The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy" topic there are about 36 such links to Photobucket. No wonder that on a slow internet connection it takes ages to download the page and the browser times out (crushes).
I'll take a closer look to the problem tomorrow to find out if a solution could be found on our side. Until a solution comes up, I recommend not to use Photobucket links on the forums.
I also PM ken28875 who linked his amazing work this way into the "The Art of SketchUp - part 1: Fantasy" to ask him if he could change the images to sketchucation hosted ones or not.
@jojo9 said:
Hi,
not even Chrome changes displays me SCF attachments. So, it isn't the Browser to be the problem.
i added sketchucation.com and buysellads.com to my firewall whitelist, then i cleaned the Cache. Unfortunately, nothing changed.
May I ask if you're connected to the internet via a corporate network or not? If yes, is it possible that the corporate firewall blocks buysellads?
