You definitely need to do something about the main page because I don't think 56k people want to have to wait for *insert number that I don't know how to count to* pictures to load.
The main page, including all the images, is over 700kb; That's 74 images which are responsible for around 80% of this size.
The only problem is that the site is French so if you're like me who doesn't know French then you might have trouble figuring out how to sign up.
I can speak French, there are also some users here who are from Quebec, right Phil? :)
So do you want to sign up for a free website with free.fr? I've heard it's pretty good. There's a free.fr site that hosts a lot of Mario Kart 64 videos (mariokart64.free.fr) and there are also some people who put their Mario Kart Double Dash videos on free.fr sites. If you can figure out how to sign up, then can you also get a free site for me? I wouldn't mind having 100 MB of space and unlimited bandwidth. It definitely beats what geocities gives.
Edit: Even if Bisqwit does decide to get a free.fr site to solve the bandwidth problem, keeping all the pictures on the page would still make it take a long time to load for the 56k-ers, so the pictures need to go.
You realize flaming will get you nowhere (btw, USA > Canada)
I agree with the picture count, and as Bisqwit mentioned a while back... "adding FMV only for variations of each game" is ok, but there still will be a new design with pictures optional (turned OFF by default)... maybe store it in the cookie, or something.
Also, the multi-tier website sounds great for anonymous ppl can just click their favourite timeattack maker/dev/mod 's nick.. and go to their "vault" of info.. but this also might put an exponential amount of load on the server.
Bisqwit is thinking and working BTS (behind-the-scenes) right now.. so we can hypothesize until hell freezes over. We'll know when Bisqwit tells us :)
I think more people need to thank bisqwit and arc and (RIP) Lezard for sites that further the recognition of this niche hobby that all of us seem to love.
</rant> k, I think i'm done for now.
Yeah French is my native language.Btw Michael , are you talking about Multimania ? Well if it is I don't know if Bisqwit want some publicity on his site but well he is the boss , but personally I think it can be an alternative.
Here it is http://www.multimania.lycos.fr/
