Too Much Activity On Here!

[trout]

Does that mean I shouldn't be reading or posting to this thread??  :dodgy:

Ahhhh success - to wish for it or not!

NEVER let fear stop you Mate, THAT would be UN Australian :yahoo:

[Ozcoins]

I am with trout.
This has taken over from ccf as the main site I use.
Sincere thanks to our hosts (and all my friends on here).

[Fulvio]

Photos are a big part of bandwidth consumption, but it depends on how you do it.

Worst way is to upload to the Forum. That not only chews up bandwidth, but storage as well.

MUCH better is to stash them someplace (Google+/Picasa is a great place, being unlimited, and allowing you to share there as well) and stick a link here instead. All you need to do is put the tags IMG and /IMG between square brackets [] (not the usual <> used in HTML) around the link. So it looks something like:

[ IMG ] http : // location.of.picture [ /IMG ] -- minus the spaces of course.

This way only the link is passed back and forth from the Forum. The picture comes direct from the host to the reader. And to save even more bandwidth (and pick up tracking/analytics), you can pass the link through  a URL shortener, like goo.gl, snipurl.com, tinyurl.com or a zillion others. That will cut it down to a couple dozen characters total, including tags.

There are other ways to reduce bandwidth, but I'll leave that for people to research themselves.
Oh, and just to put things into perspective, this page as of this moment, is 58,212 bytes, which comprises the text and all the code wrapped around it. EVERY time you reload it, those bytes get sent again, so they're costing both you and the forum. Plus the assorted profile pics, icons, smilies, etc. It all adds up...

[purplepennyhunter]

That's it, no more smilies!!!! Kidding

[trout]

That's it, no more smilies!!!! Kidding

No worries i'll just use the frownies then:(

[Fulvio]

Aren't the frownies one of the coin dealers in the city?

[JeffH]

Ban the 500 club members!
(Just kidding.)

[trout]

Ban the 500 club members!
(Just kidding.)

Another 30 posts and you are one of them old Mate :diablo: :laugh2: :dance:

[keldaw]

I got my 500 badge , but no extra star yet ..  ,, kel ,,

[trout]

I got my 500 badge , but no extra star yet ..  ,, kel ,,

The 500 club has NO official status, It is just something I created to annoy people :diablo: :dance: :laugh2:

[JeffH]

It is just something I created to annoy people

I will try to jump in before aj.
No need to create something just to annoy people. You are going well already!

Yours not very sincerely,
Jeff

[robbiegal]

:winkextra:
giggle

[keldaw]

I don't know about you trout  , but I got a 500 club badge in the mail

 didn,t you get yours , ? it must have got lost in the mail ..

    ,, kel ,,

[trout]

No need to create something just to annoy people. You are going well already!

If ya give it Ya have to be able to take it :ok:
Love the response old Mate :good:

I don't know about you trout , but I got a 500 club badge in the mail

 didn,t you get yours , ? it must have got lost in the mail ..

Bugger, Don't tell AJ cos he didn't get one :laugh2:

A really good idea there Kell.
I have no idea of how to get badges made and I would love them to be handed  out to the 500 club members.
the design would HAVE to be approved by Mark and Kathryn.
I am willing to chuck $100 in the kitty to get these made :ok:
All we need is a design and an idea of where we can get these made.
So come on you buggers give me some idea of how this can be achieved  and designed :dance2:

[purplepennyhunter]

Where is AJ?