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nordlead on 25 April 2009

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The load on the server is fine. The problem is the bandwidth...

The PS2 top 10 has all the graphics local. The other top 10 lists used photobucket.

I guess we should resize and use better compression on the news article images then. All the images are "shrunk", but they are linked to much bigger images.

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jlauro on 25 April 2009

rafichamp said:
Someone please fix this, its taking me like a minute to view this thread

The number of users vewing the ps2 top 10 article should lower within an hour or so...

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Majin-Tenshinhan on 25 April 2009

Yeah, it's some terrible slowdown ...

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trestres on 25 April 2009

Yeah, I thought it was my connection/PC, but no, it's obviously VGChartz.

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TheThunder on 25 April 2009

yeah the site is little bit slower than normal but it's only taking me about 10 sec for each page so I'm not as bad as some of you :p

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Khuutra on 25 April 2009

jlauro said:
The load on the server is fine. The problem is the bandwidth...

The PS2 top 10 has all the graphics local. The other top 10 lists used photobucket.

Oh Christ, that's my bad. But I don't know how to fix it - I don't have a photobucket account!

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SciFiBoy on 25 April 2009

urgh, i hope its fixed soon, its taken me 5 mins just to access this thread and post

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Hyperion on 25 April 2009

Good to know I'm not the only one feeling the slowdown.

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noname2200 on 25 April 2009

Khuutra said:

jlauro said:
The load on the server is fine. The problem is the bandwidth...

The PS2 top 10 has all the graphics local. The other top 10 lists used photobucket.

Oh Christ, that's my bad. But I don't know how to fix it - I don't have a photobucket account!

Not sure if these are any help, but I shrunk 'em down to 680x480 and put them on my photobucket account.