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Offline arkanoid

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Re: Why is this forum so Amiga unfriendly
« on: May 18, 2008, 03:32:07 PM »
@skuzz

I haven't read all the posts to your question, srry. I'm just wondering if you realize that a.org is built using Xoops. Xoops CMS was designed by the PC community and it's target audience are modern PC users with enough processing power to process relatively complex pages. Even a Xoops page with zero content (text/images) would be a stretch for a 50MHz a4000 to process.

HTML pages have to be highly optimized to make practical for viewing on an Amiga, and Xoops is no good for that. It's not really a fault of the a.org team, it's just a consequence of most CMS systems these days presuming users are using relatively modern PC. If a.org were to switch to a "lightweight" CMS, such as http://www.solucija.com/ coupled with an equally lightweight forum system like http://punbb.informer.com/, then maybe you could view a.org more effectively. But I guess such a switch is out of the question.

We have to face the fact that classic Amigas are just not up to the challenge of viewing content rich websites these days.

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