Youtube question

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:26 pm

Does it use any FG bandwidth when we insert youtube videos or "hotlink" photobucket pictures?

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:42 pm

SnoozeAgain;1436280 wrote: Does it use any FG bandwidth when we insert youtube videos or "hotlink" photobucket pictures?

Hmm, I'll defer to Spot on this one. My understanding is that Photobucket does but YouTube does not but I cannot support that statement with any rational argument.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:48 pm

I'm being told that having photos or embedded youtube videos slows down page loads on a forum. Maybe for dial-up users but does anyone use dial-up anymore? I understand that gifs are annoying if you have a slow connection but photos? I had never noticed nor heard that before.

In any case, I quit that forum. She was closing threads that were a week old to be "tidy". Sheesh.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:26 am

Just took a peek in and the "random" thread I had started that was a whopping six pages long has been deleted and a new thread put up explaining how she's limiting the length of threads to keep the forum speed up.

What? Is that really a thing?

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 7:44 am

Probably depends on the server hardware, and what kind of bandwidth the server has available.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:33 am

Embedding a Youtube video should not increase the server's bandwidth. The Youtube servers are actually streaming the video. Only the short HTML string holding the embedding code is handled by the local server.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:46 am

SnoozeAgain;1436320 wrote: Just took a peek in and the "random" thread I had started that was a whopping six pages long has been deleted and a new thread put up explaining how she's limiting the length of threads to keep the forum speed up.

What? Is that really a thing?

Tombstone used to close threads at thirty thousand posts to prevent them hitting the performance so it must help

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:57 pm

I could see if there were 5,000 posts on a thread but we're talking about maybe 45. Uptight German librarian, I don't think she really liked having people messing up her neat little forum.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:00 pm

Yet she's got threads like this:

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Aye yi yi.

Okay, I'm done. Thanks for the replies, everyone.