I spent some more time this afternoon / evening reviewing the overall structure of the themes, and had a lightbulb moment in the sense that it could (and should) be leaner / quicker. The big mistake here is duplicating the CSS in each Swatch (note I’m using the word “Swatch” here because the “theme” is undergoing major refactoring) makes the initial loading slower than it really should be as the entire page has to be reloaded to remove the previous CSS classes.

From a design perspective, this didn’t make any sense the more I thought about it. So, off to Dev I went and began refactoring. The end result (in Dev at least) is that there is now one “common” CSS file that gets loaded once, and the “swatches” are just CSS variables (rather like mixins) where the existing ones are replaced with a new set on selection.

Instead of adding another large CSS file, and effectively increasing the load time, we now simply call around 15 mixins and inject these into the head with an Ajax request. This means the Swatch changes instantly, and the site no longer needs to be reloaded to clear out any odd looking artefacts.

Admittedly, this has now “broken” the daylight theme in the sense that I have to restructure it as it was experiential at the time, and something of a deviation in that the mixins used do not align properly as they do in the other swatches. This was more about attempting to achieve a specific look.

I succeeded on that front as per the previous post, but now have to rework it based on the changes I’ve made to the other swatches in order to streamline them. One thing I did take from the daylight Swatch is the user posting style (giving an illusion of threaded replies) that makes the overall reading experience better in my view - this is now sewn into all swatches meaning a consistent viewing experience throughout.

Tomorrow will hopefully allow me time to get the daylight Swatch working again. Once done and tested, I’ll implement it in production.

tes. maybe rights pb

@DownPW sounds good.

@Hari No, there is a limit 🙂 but thanks all the same !

@Hari said in Ethernet speed VERY slow:

If you have gigabit hub you should only connect all gigabit connections to stay gigabit mode, in case if you connect a 10mb connection the hub will siwtch to 10mbps mode instead of 1000

This isn’t true. Hubs are pretty much dead for network connections these days with switches being preferred. The technology difference between hubs and switches is vast in the sense that if a Hub (for example) is 100Mbps and has 24 ports, 100Mbps is shared amongst those ports.

With a switch, if you have 100Mbps and 24 ports, each port in fact gets 100Mbps - the total bandwidth available is known as the “backplane throughput” - provided the total backplane exceeds the port x speed equation. So, if you wanted a guaranteed 1Gbps throughput on each port with 24 in total, you’d need a 24Gb backplane 🙂

As an example, the switches we use at work (Cisco Catalyst 3850 48 port POE) have a 176Gb backplane (they are business / data center usage, so no surprises there). The “consumer” switches (such as NetGear for example) will have nowhere near this, and therefore, the overall speed of the port will be impacted by the amount of devices you have running simultaneously.

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@phenomlab said in Virgin router replacement:

@JAC said in Virgin router replacement:

Still awaiting Gig router ;).

The router and speeds have been fantastic (wif based) so far, can’t complain 👍🏻😁

@Madchatthew No problem at all. More than happy to help with stuff like this 🙂

@DownPW it’s here
https://sudonix.com/post/3590

The exact CSS I have here is

@keyframes rotate180 { from { transform: rotate(0deg); } to { transform: rotate(180deg); } } @keyframes rotate0 { from { transform: rotate(180deg); } to { transform: rotate(0deg); } } .forum-logo:hover { transform: rotate(180deg); } .hover { transform: rotate(180deg); }

@phenomlab said in Virgin Media Broadband:

@JAC yes, very reliable with no issues.

Thanks very much matey, will buy this in a few days and keep you updated.

Very good effect 😉
Thanks for the tip Mark !

no no no

@DownPW said in nodeJS is the best:

hmmm I’ve already had this on my forum !!!

@phenomlab said in Only those who do nothing make no mistakes:

@crazycells yes, one of my favorites. People seem very quick to criticize when you do something wrong, yet never say anything when you get it right.

A good little read, enjoyed that 😁.

For anyone who’s recently bought a 3d printer…
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@Hari that’s a common Plesk issue. I had that all time when using it and eventually you’ll need to poke so many holes like this to get things to work that your security will look like Swiss cheese.

One of the reasons I stopped using Plesk.

@Hari welcome to Grafana, the most confusing stats package there is !

According to the guidelines, you certainly have enough RAM at 4gb

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@Hari That’s a failed LCD panel if I ever saw one

It’s worth adding @qwinter that 2.x is now completely stable.

@phenomlab thanks a lot, have a nice day 🙂