h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sorry I have neglected getting in touch - like yourself I have had a lot on my plate and as you said once in an email to the POST about the Aces - you cant do everthing and expect to do them all to the best of your ability - well something like that.

Just popped in to say hello

catcha soon
veg

I share vegi's view- glad to see you're about once in a while (p.s. try this on a 56k modem on a 28k phone line )

Yeah I let too many weeks go by though. Sorry about that.

Yeh - so dont let it happen again

Any new Ideas ? - you can always publish em in the POST

vegiman

new ideas? I'm still trying to survive all my old ideas. =)

Hi Zach!! Good to see you about again! I just sent them a thank you note via email, but you always were a dramatic one!

Hope to see you around some more, big changes coming up in the future sometime or something....

- X

I see you are still Sub eding - now come on - you know you are not happy unless you start on some new venture. what is your latest obsession then ?
veg

I'm not really subbing anymore. Would like to but I've got too much on my plate and can't settle in any one place. I'm like a hyperactive flying insect at a picnic. Can't light at any one place for long.

Someone might swat me.

Actually to be honest, one thing that puts me off this place nowadays is something they may not be able to do anything about. No matter where I am or what I'm accessing the 'Net through, how fast my connection is, it takes for freaking EVER to download anything from h2g2.com. It's literally like watching the goo slowly ooze onto my screen every time I want to look at a page.

I wish they could have a streamlined version of h2g2.com which was more text based. As much as I have always loved the goo, it downloads for me EVERY PAGE. I wish I could circumvent that. Might make it a bit easier, but then I'd still be downloading the banner ads. There may not be a solution to that one, I dunno. But if we could each somehow personalize the way h2g2.com downloads? Gee I dunno. Maybe if you'd rather your page be green and your text be red. Like there could be some place to manually decide that. Other websites do that. The more user friendly you could make the site and the more personalized you could make it I think the more people would like it.

*shrug* but then I'm just an armchair quarterback. I can't code or nuthin. =) It may not be possible.

Or it may be and they're already working on it!!

Those guys and gals in the Towers are brighter than I think a lot of us give them credit.

- X

I haven't tried it with the piccies turned off - Maybe this will help a bit. The site is speeding up a bit now except when there are a lot of newbeis floating around - The Tech boys say it needs 100,000 visitors now to blcok up the system and cause the CPU to break down.
veg

They weren't expecting the popularity of h2g2.com to ramp up like it has. Not that they're complaining. I don't want to see the graphics go away completely. It should still be how newcomers experience the site. But oldtimers like me who like to post a lot when we find time, well we could post more and faster if there was less busy stuff happening in the margins. After someone signed up and was in h2g2.com for awhile, the option could pop up in the user edit functions.

Also, does the goo show up when you're using a palm pilot or whatever those handheld things are called? I don't think so but I've never tested it myself, not having one of those doodads.

I just realized that all the graphics I've personally contributed to h2g2.com are gone now. I had them at my wordjazz.net site but since I'm not renewing that space financially, the files are no longer accessible. Eventually I'll need to go through all my pages and delete the references to the graphics, or move them all somewhere else. I may just delete them. If I had a guaranteed lifelong place on the Web where my stuff would always be, I'd just change the links, but I'm too nomadic and transient for that, at least online.

I cant answer many of the questions you pose - I do know that a new skin for the site will be up and running in a couple of weeks.
as to a site
have you tried abelgratis.com - the same one that hosts ths POST stuff.

Its Free and pages do not have banners on them - just a thought
aka vegiman

PS - they are also disabling scrips so there will be a loat of strange looking pages around soon.
aka vegiman