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#1 Apr 11, 2011 7:45 PM

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Disable Pictures/Videos

Kinda an idea for the site, if it isn't possible to do this atm.

Basicly, for users, like myself, who has dial-up should be allow to disable pictures and videos cause they lagged our computers a lot, and sometime crash us. I don't care about JPEG pictures cause they are small enough but for other pictures and videos, maybe just turn them into links instead of showing them on the thread?


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#2 Apr 11, 2011 9:02 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

i've often wondered why people just HAVE to post videos directly, instead of just putting a link.

images, it depends. sometimes it's more relevant to the discussion to actually have it posted.

but what it comes down to, i think, is people just changing their ways a little bit. hopefully nobody will have to take administrative action over something like this.

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#3 Apr 12, 2011 7:57 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

There was a few times where I almost crashed and one time when my PC froze and I had to restart it so ya.. I think this option will be helpful.


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#4 Apr 12, 2011 11:46 PM

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#5 Apr 13, 2011 7:50 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos


"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes..."

Behind Blue Eyes,
Artist: The Who
Second Artist: Limp Bizkit.

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#6 Apr 13, 2011 8:54 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

You're definitely in the minority not being able to load videos or even jpeg images. You're not going to be able to visit many modern websites at all with a connection like that. 

Even if it were possible to implement something like this with this forum's software (I'm not sure if it is), honestly, nothing ever really gets done around here in the adding new features department since the only one who can make those changes is the admin. The best suggestion I could give you would be to block images and flash from this website on whatever browser you have, because the forum itself is probably not going to make this change just for one person.

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#7 Apr 14, 2011 1:38 AM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

only one person who has complained.

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#8 Apr 14, 2011 2:34 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

What's the internet without pictures and videos?

That's like a Spyro game without Spyro in it.

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#9 Apr 15, 2011 8:07 PM

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"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes..."

Behind Blue Eyes,
Artist: The Who
Second Artist: Limp Bizkit.

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#10 Apr 15, 2011 8:21 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

Most people with that bad of a connection probably aren't on the internet much at all, much less think they'll be able to post regularly on a forum without problems. This site really isn't that bad with flash and huge images and stuff everywhere. You're the first person I've heard of who has problems with loading JPEG images.

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#11 Apr 15, 2011 10:12 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos


"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes..."

Behind Blue Eyes,
Artist: The Who
Second Artist: Limp Bizkit.

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#12 Apr 16, 2011 6:07 AM

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#13 Apr 16, 2011 2:58 PM

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"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes..."

Behind Blue Eyes,
Artist: The Who
Second Artist: Limp Bizkit.

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#14 Apr 20, 2011 3:39 AM

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#15 Apr 20, 2011 8:00 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos


"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes..."

Behind Blue Eyes,
Artist: The Who
Second Artist: Limp Bizkit.

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#16 May 02, 2011 8:45 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos

I use to have a Dial Up connection and it was a royal pain when it came to images and such yes, but I'm not sure if the admin has any software to deal with that kind of situation, so I just had to get along with what I had and disable images and such. Sorry that it's such an annoyance to you but hey, at least you can get online.

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#17 May 02, 2011 10:20 PM

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Re: Disable Pictures/Videos


"No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, Behind Blue Eyes..."

Behind Blue Eyes,
Artist: The Who
Second Artist: Limp Bizkit.

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#18 May 11, 2011 8:23 PM

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