Amiga web surfing woes

[MelbourneBen]

This is just my strong opinion, but since the Internet has been ruined by the mainstream in all its ADD, social and  commercial "glory", be nice if old-style BBS's made a comeback for those of us that can't tolerate all the stupidity and the incessant "upgrading" going on most of the social sites that render even modern computers and browsers sluggish and buggy. Some call that "progress" and I guess they're right. The more the internet changes for the worse, the more compelled I am to find something else to do with my time.  

Agree, it would be great to see Amiga.org have an Amiga friendly version i.e. no graphics just a plan web based BB. EAB have a mobile version of their site which looks great in Ibrowse its just a shame you can only view posts rather than login and reply.

I've been thinking of setting up a traditional BB for some time but I dont see me having the time for a while... what with work and decorating the house ready for the Melbournesben's first child ;-)

If someone wants to take the lead and set something up, I may be able to offer some of my time/skills.

[MelbourneBen]

Amiga.org displays perfectly in IBrowse through the proxy http://aoproxy.extropia.co.uk
Far better than the mobile version of EAB, and it's completely usable. In fact the regular version of EAB, without any tricks, subdomains or proxies, works better than the mobile version does in IBrowse! Don't pay attention to the recycled swill the users on EAB love impulse-post without having actually used a real Amiga with IBrowse to test it. I don't know who started the whole "mobile version of EAB works better in IBrowse" nonsense but the regular version of the forum works fine, you can log in and post, images and avatars are displayed and the whole thing is formatted better than the compact and confusing mobile version. Take it from someone who never stopped using Amigas, not these Windows lovers on EAB who pretend to know what they're talking about because they read and repeated someone else's uninformed opinion.

It may work on your Amiga but my 68020 6 meg Amiga 1200 really struggles with any graphics which is why I use the moby version of EAB. Whilst I can display Amiga.org in Ibrowse through the proxie it is very slow and un-useable.