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PLEASE read!!! 15 years 7 months ago #3794

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Hi all!

Sorry to have to write this, but we have noticed that our bandwidth is a little higher than it should be. After investigation we noticed that it has been caused by some people hitting refresh or the forum button every few seconds. We do have a high traffic limit but we can not afford for lots of people to be constantly hitting the refresh button when there is no need.

Some people think they have to hit refresh for the cackle box to work this is NOT the case, it is on a timer (when you are logged in), sometimes it will show up some cackles quick and others it wont, depends when you cackle in the timer.

We hope you can understand but today a member had refreshed 4 times in 30 SECONDS which as we are sure you will understand it is very excessive and there is no need. Obviously you are going to want to hit the refresh button occasionally to see who is online or new topics but it doesn't need to be every 5 seconds. :computer: :home: We are keeping tabs on the situation and if this is not resolved we might have to add a "flood control" system which in fact will make it slower. This constant refreshing is also slowing our site down as it has to reload all images etc, and if you have say 4 people doing it at the same time all the time, it is giving our server too much unnecessary work.

Thank you very much for your co-operation and assistance in this matter.

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