Adding sounds? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

oldtimer · 06-14-2003, 12:00 PM

This is just off the top of my head now but Could we add sounds to the forum? It's a long shot but everything so far I've read has been rejected or deemed undoable. This may be one of them. God, for a suggestion forum, you'd think there would be better ideas?

spectre · 06-14-2003, 01:02 PM

The problem with adding sounds is that the sounds would take extra time to download, would slow the server down, and would take up bandwith. I usually have the tv or music on while I'm here, so sounds would annoy the hell out of me while I'm browsing.

meanSpleen · 06-14-2003, 02:01 PM

I browse with the sound muted anyway. Theres not much worse than hearing pops, clicks, and snippets of stuff when I'm surfing or doing stuff. Besides, I don't want to hear a sound everytime a page loads. Thats what tabs are for.

SiN · 06-14-2003, 03:14 PM

mhm, i too don't allow sounds, i find them annoying in general.

but, just my 2 cents.

tru tho about the bandwidth, tho.

Stiltzkin · 06-14-2003, 08:11 PM

I like to pretend that I have some authority when looking through these threads because I have extensive programming experience and some experience running and maintaining an IIS server

Allow me to quote Hal:

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The site transfers 17-20gb of data per day as well.

What is the majority of the data transferred? I would imagine that 99.99% of it is nothing but raw text. Imagine if the server started dishing out sound files. Yeesh.

oldtimer · 06-15-2003, 02:05 PM

As I said, just throwing it out there. I wasn't fond of the idea myself but when I look at the other suggestions, I feel something new needs to happen to this forum............now.

06-14-2003, 12:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
oldtimer Addict	Adding sounds? This is just off the top of my head now but Could we add sounds to the forum? It's a long shot but everything so far I've read has been rejected or deemed undoable. This may be one of them. God, for a suggestion forum, you'd think there would be better ideas? __________________ Slowly but surely getting over the loss of TFP v. 3.0. Where the hell am I?.... Showering once a month does not make you a better person. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.

06-14-2003, 01:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
spectre Junkie	The problem with adding sounds is that the sounds would take extra time to download, would slow the server down, and would take up bandwith. I usually have the tv or music on while I'm here, so sounds would annoy the hell out of me while I'm browsing. __________________ "Fuck these chains No goddamn slave I will be different" ~ Machine Head

06-14-2003, 02:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
meanSpleen Squid hat! Location: A Few Miles Away From Halx	I browse with the sound muted anyway. Theres not much worse than hearing pops, clicks, and snippets of stuff when I'm surfing or doing stuff. Besides, I don't want to hear a sound everytime a page loads. Thats what tabs are for. __________________ Like TFP? Donate To Keep It Alive!!

06-14-2003, 03:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
SiN strangelove Location: ...more here than there...	mhm, i too don't allow sounds, i find them annoying in general. but, just my 2 cents. tru tho about the bandwidth, tho. __________________ - + - ° GiRLie GeeK ° - + - ° 01110010011011110110111101110100001000000110110101100101 Therell be days/When Ill stray/I may appear to be/Constantly out of reach/I give in to sin/Because I like to practise what I preach

06-15-2003, 02:05 PM	#6 (permalink)
oldtimer Addict	As I said, just throwing it out there. I wasn't fond of the idea myself but when I look at the other suggestions, I feel something new needs to happen to this forum............now. __________________ Slowly but surely getting over the loss of TFP v. 3.0. Where the hell am I?.... Showering once a month does not make you a better person. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr.