SubForums Question

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I am working on a board with about 50 forums showing on the main page. Some people on lower connections are saying the that it loads slow. I just got done cleaning the code and optimizing all images, and really everything is pretty bare and small. My question is, would all the forums make it load slow for some users?

Would it be better to have about 10 forums show on the main page each with their own subforums that are only seen when clicked?

Thanks for any input!

[tubedogg]

The only thing that would slow it down would be HTML...the PHP is (obviously) all done server-side and the resulting HTML is sent to the browser...50 forumhome_forumbit_level1_post (etc.) templates are 5x more than 10 so there's 5x as much HTML to push across.

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Personally I hate using sub forums unless completely necessary. I found out the hard way that things get too confusing.

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Originally posted by tubedogg
50 forumhome_forumbit_level1_post (etc.) templates are 5x more than 10 so there's 5x as much HTML to push across.

Do you think this would affect some dial up users? Or do you think I should look elsewhere as the source for slow loading?

[tubedogg]

Depending where those users are, how good their connection is in general, what kind of slowdowns they're behind, it could definitely be the HTML.

I'd try and whittle it down some (the # of forums on the main page I mean).

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Ok thanks alot for your input.