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I cann't understand why not to transfer to topic page at once?

Insted I have to see this one:

Can't you turn that off in the ACP? I have it off on my board...

If you don't like it, turn it off, that's what Admin controls are for.


:cool:

Another reason for AJAX! hehe

Can't you turn that off in the ACP? I have it off on my board...

If you don't like it, turn it off, that's what Admin controls are for.

:cool:

Another reason for AJAX! hehe

Thanks.

Only thing about turning it off, is I kind of wish it could stay in some areas, but not others.

Yes, but only the ADMIN can turn it off. If you're just a user, you have no control over it.

Personally I think it's a dumb feature. But then I don't understand the reason for it. To look nice? To me it doesn't. And it's annoying.

I think it should be each users' choice. Under Board Settings, where you can disable graphics, avatars, and signatures, you should also be able to disable that thing.

Better yet, AJAX or whatever - after entering a post, a little Post Accepted box comes up and fades away, and then the next page loads.

I think this is a security feature and reduces load off the sql server.
I have left it on.

I think this is a security feature and reduces load off the sql server.

I have left it on.

Loading a new page reduces server load? Cool concept. :lol:

It also makes it more secure! That's great. I dunno how it does it, but it's gotta be one.

Heh, it probably does neither of those things.

I do agree that instead of using the Thanks redirect, that may be they should start using the new in line message system and then also have an option to turn that off if they wish.

There has to be a reason why it is there.
Maybe some official staff can answer this one.

A lot of times those redirect pages are there to finish up the first part of a two step process. Take, for example, sending a PM. When you click the send button, it has to do a bunch of error checking to make sure you have a valid recipient, you typed a subject, there is content to the message, and so on. Once it gets done doing all that, it actually delivers the PM. This means doing several DB queries to insert the new message for the recipient, maybe save a sent one for the sender, flag the database column to let the member know they have a new message to trigger the My Assistant, etc. Once it gets done with all that, and the PM has actually been delivered, it shows that thanks page as a kind of confirmation that all went well. After it has done this, it needs to send you back to your Inbox. That is a lengthy process as well as it has to load the skin, build the basic HTML of the page, output rows for each PM you have in the inbox, etc.

So basically the thanks pages are your confirmation that the 'do something' part of the action you just took worked well, and then after them you get redirected to someplace else. Both of these actions typically require lots of code to be executed, so these redirect pages are a nice little way to break this up. It was probably more necessary several years ago with slower servers hosting the sites than it is today.

It was probably more necessary several years ago with slower servers hosting the sites than it is today.

I'd second that.

A simple little "loading.gif" type graphic would be fine nowadays.

I'd second that.

A simple little "loading.gif" type graphic would be fine nowadays.

Yup, I think that's probably it. The reason they haven't just removed it entirely is most likely that people are used to it on forums, and they might think something was wrong if it didn't show up. An inline message would be great, but I doubt we'll get that in the immediate future.

Yup, I think that's probably it. The reason they haven't just removed it entirely is most likely that people are used to it on forums, and they might think something was wrong if it didn't show up. An inline message would be great, but I doubt we'll get that in the immediate future.

Myself, I have usually waited. Occasionally I have clicked on I don't want to wait.

As FuSoYa says in the old days a server could likely fall over if too many insert or update queries were being processed.