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evandixon

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    evandixon got a reaction from Kjell Iver Johansen in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    I would only like lazy loading if it didn't distract from viewing the site. If not done properly, like what I've seen on this site so far (looking forward to trying the fix), images telegraph themselves as they pop in, making the user notice the lazy loading rather than the content on the page.
    I do see your point about bandwidth usage though. That's one of the reasons why I haven't moved my site to the cloud: the bandwidth usage costs more than all the other resources combined. For now, I stick to my dedicated server that doesn't charge for bandwidth usage while simultaneously providing 25x the speed I actually need.
    How did we get here, bandwidth potentially costing hundreds more per month than a physical server? I blame ISPs, but the root cause is probably capitalism.
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    evandixon got a reaction from JoshB84 in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    I would only like lazy loading if it didn't distract from viewing the site. If not done properly, like what I've seen on this site so far (looking forward to trying the fix), images telegraph themselves as they pop in, making the user notice the lazy loading rather than the content on the page.
    I do see your point about bandwidth usage though. That's one of the reasons why I haven't moved my site to the cloud: the bandwidth usage costs more than all the other resources combined. For now, I stick to my dedicated server that doesn't charge for bandwidth usage while simultaneously providing 25x the speed I actually need.
    How did we get here, bandwidth potentially costing hundreds more per month than a physical server? I blame ISPs, but the root cause is probably capitalism.
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    evandixon got a reaction from Adriano Faria in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    I would only like lazy loading if it didn't distract from viewing the site. If not done properly, like what I've seen on this site so far (looking forward to trying the fix), images telegraph themselves as they pop in, making the user notice the lazy loading rather than the content on the page.
    I do see your point about bandwidth usage though. That's one of the reasons why I haven't moved my site to the cloud: the bandwidth usage costs more than all the other resources combined. For now, I stick to my dedicated server that doesn't charge for bandwidth usage while simultaneously providing 25x the speed I actually need.
    How did we get here, bandwidth potentially costing hundreds more per month than a physical server? I blame ISPs, but the root cause is probably capitalism.
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    evandixon reacted to Yamamura in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    Yes, but the constant loading of images and "shaking" of the page is annoying. This feature is useful for speeding up the initial loading of a page, but when viewing a page it does not make sense and looks bad.
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    evandixon got a reaction from Yamamura in Test drive Invision Community 4.4 now!   
    Lazy loading seems like a neat idea, but after scrolling through this thread, it distracts from the normal experience of scrolling down a webpage. I reloaded and hit F12 to watched the network traffic on that page. It didn't seem to matter how long I sat at the top of the page; the images didn't load until I scrolled down. Is it possible to trigger the image loads before the user scrolls down? If a user spends a lot of time reading the first post, the browser could be using that time to download the images that will be needed when scrolling down.
    Another thing that results from the lazy loading is that images just pop into place, changing the vertical page size. Is it possible to save some sort of size information, so that the initial page load reserves the visible area of the image before loading the real image*? This might not be needed if my first suggestion is implemented, since this is how images already work most places on the internet.
    * The first image in this blog post implies that might already be intended. If it is, then it's not working for me.
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    evandixon got a reaction from AA15 in We're now using Invision Community 4.3!   
    I doubt it, because clients don't have it yet, and they'd want to keep the demo rock solid.
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    evandixon reacted to David.. in November Wrap Up   
    This is great and all but you know we're all waiting for the 4.3 topics. hehe
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