DominusArbitrationis

When you launch the game via RageHook, you will open to the main menu, and can select Story Mode from there. If you really want to be sure you won't go online, block GTA 5 from accessing the internet, either by using your firewall, or by disconnecting from the internet entirely.

I think that a button that allows us to see what our post would look like when actually posted would be nice.

Thanks, I somehow missed all of the account settings! With this large of a site, speed is very hard to improve, I know this from experience. One of the problems with the images is I have seen a very large (Compared to the JPEGs/PNGs) GIF that took a lot longer to load (Probably about a whole second to load or so). In terms of site speed, have you tried looking into a CDN like Cloudflare or something similar? Those usually do a ton of caching and other speed-enhancing actions without much effort needed. A JavaScript solution that hides it would not do anything, except possibly making it ever so slightly worse. If I'm understanding what you mean by hooking into/ creating a new block, then that would be pretty easy to do, since it would just be a IF unchecked, insert the JavaScript, ELSE, do nothing. I don't know how IPS is, but usually you can make a theme, then update your version which wouldn't change much in the theme except requiring some to be recoded if that code was removed. New versions of forum software, in my experience, don't touch themes much, since security and customizability are pretty important. I've actually had increased load time lately, which is probably pretty strange and possibly unique. That post definitely helped me understand a lot more, thank you. The following are the results of pinging your server from two machines located in very different geographical locations: This is from a server (CentOS 6) in Michigan: This is from my personal computer in south Georgia

That isn't entirely true. My browser still has to send packets to your server in order to ask "What do I need?" at which point your server replies "You have everything already" and sends the packets back to me with a 304 Not Modified. So it does take some time, albeit not much. I will grant that the screenshots I posted weren't overly good, since all the content is cached, so I ran another test: I cleared my cache, browsed to the main page and it took 7.12 seconds to load that. Which means it took about 2 seconds longer to get things that aren't cached. After looking a bit further into the site, I've found that you actually aren't accomplishing that goal (Did you forget to disable other themes?). As you can see, my version of your site looks rather different and I have not modified the site on my end whatsoever. This is what your software is sending me, after I set it to do that. I'm trying to figure out what makes the site so slow for me right now. The images definitely don't help, neither do signatures (The ability to toggle signatures would be nice too and is similar to toggling the gallery) but you don't seem to want to make those toggle-able. Can you explain why a uniform design is wanted? To me, it doesn't make much sense, unless you simply don't want to do the work required for multiple themes, which I could understand, but could also come up with alternatives. After reading over this post again, I see that some of my remarks may come off as hostile or rude. That is 100% unintentional and entirely unwanted, so I apologize if you feel I have been rude, disrespectful, combative, etc.

​A uniform design is great when everyone gets pretty uniform performance. The problem arises from the fact that I almost certainly have a different internet speed than you do, and from a lot of people. Then, unless you are using a CDN, geographic location comes into play, which further slows down page loads. It took this page almost 5 seconds to refresh! So even with nearly everything being cached, it still fetches it, and that takes time. I have attached the network results from my browser. Without caching, it took 7.04 seconds to load this page. If you want to run the same test with Firefox, right click on the page, inspect element, then click on the network tab. The good news is the images are compressed, along with the JavaScript. The bad news is that I'm sure you want people to view the site from anywhere, which becomes a problem. I cannot use this site on my phone simply because the gallery is there and it makes the page insanely long and way too hard to read. I can't check the site really fast even on my desktop, since it takes 5 seconds to load a page that is cached! At the very least, a mobile theme should be available so that way the things that take time to load are not there, but you still present a pretty uniform view. Honestly, the problem I am having with "I don't think we have much interest in making this toggleable." is that while G17 Media might not have that interest, at least three people have said they do and none have said they don't (I'm not including your no because you fall under G17 Media). If I am in the minority of the community, then you're absolutely right and shouldn't waste the time and energy to implement my suggestion. But, if I am not, then you should spend the time and energy to make the community happier. Quick question: If I have another suggestion, should I put that in this topic as well, or should I create a new one?

I would like to apologize if there was already a topic on this, I didn't see one. I think that the gallery in the header needs a way to be disabled. Since it is JavaScript, and images that may not be optimized, it causes every page to load slower. The easiest way, I think, would be to set PHP to do a check if the visitor is logged in, and if they have disabled the gallery, at which point it would fetch the JavaScript from a separate file and load it provided the user didn't opt out of seeing it. Also, as a side-note, the footer and header seem to be be set to a specific size, which looks really weird when making a post (They extend past the div "ipsLayout_mainArea" . Also, there is a comma missing in the registration notice after the second instance of the word "gender" in the second paragraph of "Account Policy".