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Offline AmigaHeretic

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Re: Why is this forum so Amiga unfriendly
« on: May 18, 2008, 12:04:25 AM »
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Now... I could ethernet connect them and set up Samba etc to use my broadband, but really ... My point... You would have thought that anyone with the crudest of Amigas should, could access some online help facility. A simple bulletin board would suffice or newsgroup style answer page. Its not rocket science. The Amiga Org page suffers worse than most forums I frequent. Absolutley loaded with bloat and unecessary graphics that when your up against it you could do without.


It sounds like maybe you found a niche market and you could set up a website that is more or less a text only forum.

I think asking to make a text only version of this site would be a lot of work, but I could be wrong.


The other option, as pointed out, is already available and is built into your web browser for cases just as your are talking about (slow dialup) and it is a little check box to turn off loading of grahics which make it..... text only  :-D   Which I think is what you are asking for anyway??  :-?   So there is a solution already I think.


Lets layout the options.

1. Turns off loading of graphics --  You get a text based version of A.org!!  Yay!!!

2. Get the A.org owners to write a script(s) to create a "switch" to make it possible to turn the site to text based and graphics based at the users will.  -- seems like a lot of work but I don't know.

3. Start a "NEW" simple text based (dialup friendly) site for help.

Seems like option 1 is the best, but????
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