DiscoWeb Announcement

[Rugbier]

Chris

Awesome

forum runner is working fine

 

[jymmiejamz]

The site is incredibly zoomed in for me right now. It is almost unusable.

 

[jymmiejamz]

Nevermind, it was a browser issue. D-90.com was doing the same thing.

 

[ArmyRover]

Looks good Chris nice work

 

[chris snell]

Its great how fast it is compared to all the other forums out there too.

I was poking around at other off-roading and LR forums today and checking some statistics generated by the ad and tracking blocker that I use, HTTP Switchboard.

Almost all of the sites employ third-party trackers and ad placement to generate revenue--at the expense of your privacy and browsing speed. Here's a comparison of their use on the various boards:

Site / # of third-party trackers, scripts, cookies, ads, etc. on the front page

Land Rover UK Forums - 20

IH8MUD - 27

Expedition Portal - 4

Pirate4x4 - 26

Land Rovers Only - 29

Land Rover Owner International Forums - 3

DefenderSource - 7

LRR Forums - 1

Land Rover World Forum - 14

ADVRider - 0

DiscoWeb - 0

EE BBS - 0

 

[Devildog01]

All joking aside it really is great Chris. Much cleaner and faster. Nice job.

 

[ChrismonDA]

Was trying to donate. But not able to do so!

 

[stu454]

Was trying to donate. But not able to do so!

Chis has disabled the donations until he gets the LLC and tax issues sorted.

 

[SGaynor]

Thumbs up!

 

[Blue]

Looks great, Chris. Thanks for keeping the torch lit. I'd be happy to help screen and/or beat on new users.

 

[az_max]

When I looked at my proxy server at one point last year, the DVD banner at the top was the longest cached file on the server, dating back 4 years. And as far as I know, I'm the only one at work who visits this site

 

[Nomar]

All these new changes are confusing me.

Automatic hand dryers in public restrooms confuse you...


.

 

[seventyfive]

Automatic hand dryers in public restrooms confuse you...


.

I watched Brett try to find the handle to dispense paper towels for about 10 minutes once. i finally swiped my hand under it to turn it on. He looked at me and said 'does that noise mean it's out of towels.'.

In Brett's defense, he was sober.

 

[eliaschristeas]

good work man!

 

[chris snell]

So, heads up: I have signed up a CDN service (Cloudflare) for discoweb.org. Without getting too technical, CDNs are used by most major websites to speed up their sites by shortening the distance your web browser has to go to fetch our site.

Moving to Cloudflare will keep us safe from many hackers and spammers and should speed up the site a bit. It also adds SSL support if you care about privacy. If you notice anything strange, please let me know ASAP.

 

[Robbie]

Damn, gone for a couple months and Dweb goes upscale. Thank you Chris.

 

[jymmiejamz]

Is it just me, or does DWeb seem more active in the past couple weeks?

 

[1920SF]

Credit to Chris, the refresh has done wonders.

 

[Roverdoc]

Much better. thanks Chris.

 

[Ho]

well done Chris. I appreciate your efforts. I am still around, just not as active on the bbs. I'll come visit once in a while.