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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Moose on October 20, 2003, 21:18:29

Title: ICQ
Post by: Moose on October 20, 2003, 21:18:29

Down loaded the new ICQ update to day, now my addess list has disappeared.

Why dosn't the postings on the forum list the ICQ icon on each one anymore :?:

Title: ICQ
Post by: Andy. on October 20, 2003, 23:16:23

Well spotted Chris.

So why then :?:

Please enlighten us forum techies  :)

Title: ICQ
Post by: muddyweb on October 21, 2003, 09:24:14

The main reason is that it was slowing the page loading of the forums dramtically.

Every time your browser tried to display an ICQ icon, it would wander off to check your online status with the ICQ server.   This server is not the most expeditious device in the world.

When there are 6 or 7 different people in a topic, all with ICQ, this was adding a lot of time to get the pages to load.

On one particular day, when the ICQ server was especially bad, the page was taking around 35 seconds to load... take out the ICQ and it dropped to 3.

Sorry for the inconvenience, we will continue to monitor things and see if we can't get it back in the future.

Title: ICQ
Post by: Andy. on October 21, 2003, 18:25:54

Fair enough you know best I suppose.

Cheers for the explanation  :)

Title: ICQ
Post by: Moose on October 21, 2003, 21:12:43

Clever these techies huh,

Is messenger different then  :?:

Title: ICQ
Post by: muddyweb on October 21, 2003, 23:20:05

Yes, it's different... the messenger icon doesn't actually query your online status, only that you have a messenger account and are happy to share it :-)