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I'm having trouble either removing, or resizing the sizable bar on the shoutbox. I find it's a little to large, so I went into the skins CSS, and edited this line in Skin_shoutbox -> Shoutbox:


<img src='{$this->settings['img_url']}/spacer.gif' id='shouts-resizer' border='0' height='6px' alt='{$this->lang->words['resize_shouts_area']}' style='margin-bottom:-5px;cursor:n-resize;width:100%' />



to a height of 2px, though it doesn't seem to change anything. Any ideas how to edit this bar?

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Changing the height value there should change it just fine, I just verified this on my site. The bar is only 6px high as it is. There is some white area around it, but that is from the padding of the table cell the bar is in.




Thanks, I ended up getting it to what I wanted, more or less. :)
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Hi Michael,

( After posting twice in the wrong place, I feel small and stupid now that I found de right place :baby: )

I like to upgrade to the latest version but I'm afraid to loose my Dutch Translation. Just to make shore, can I just upload the new files and click on upgrade or something?
Thanks in advance and many thanks for your fantastic shoutbox!

Kind Regards,
Ruud

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An application upgrade should never overwrite any customizations you'd done to that app, apart from actual code-level edits. That being said, I've never actually upgraded an app when I also had a non-English translation of the app installed too. My best guess is that you'll be fine, but you may want to send off a quick ticket to IPS to confirm this, as it would be something that would be the same for all applications.

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Hi,

I have been consulting with IPS and my web host Wiredhub to track down some very long delays between pages loading which regularly result in a message that states



	Resource Limit Is Reached


The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.



Neither my web host or IPS can find anything wrong and I'm on a beefy server with lots of spare HDD space and resources, although its Shared Hosting.

IPS have suggested it may be the Shoutbox as its visible on most of my pages except profiles, blogs and the gallery.
I have the Shoutbox visible for my member only on most pages, we have a fairly quiet forum compared to most, about 10-15 posts a day from about 15 members a day on average.
However the Global Shoutbox when enabled does seem to cause very long 20-30 seconds delays from when I click on any link on my board from any page that shows the global shoutbox.
If I disable the global hook by selecting the option to view on the board index only, I would say the lag halves.

My members will not like having it disabled except on the board index, but what else can I do?
I have been running shoutbox for years without this problem until recent versions, and I currently using v1.2.3 for IPB Board 3.2.2.

Any suggestions, folks?

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Show the shoutbox on fewer pages, or don't allow it to auto refresh as quickly. It will consume a lot of resources, there's no way to get this functionality without that.




Thanks Michael, I thought Shoutbox had been tweaked and optimised, I didn't realise it used such a lot of resources. What auto refresh setting do you recommend, I think mine is still on default?
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It has been looked at to try and make it more resource friendly, yes, but that's not to say it still doesn't use a lot of resources. There's no way to have it not use a lot of resources if you're going to show it to every user on every page, and have it automatically refreshing all the time.

I can't tell you what auto refresh setting you want. You'll have to experiment and figure out what is best for you.

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