I'm a big time die hard fan of "text only". I'm an information consumer, and not someone who likes being distracted by meaningless visual effects.
My Linux consoles are all (mostly) white on black, my 5-monitor Windows desktop looks like Windows 2000, and my 3-monitor work machine follows that suit. Both machines are setup with a solid candy apple red background and not that dark or light blue. No pictures, no fancy graphics. Performance gains alone for just that (My machine isn't a slouch, and is still in the top 10% for 3DMark benchmarks even at 3 years old). I tell Windows to not animate windows on min/max/restore. I tell Windows to not animate the drop down boxes, or scroll boxes. If I were to run a Linux desktop (And I have in the past) I turned those fancy eye candy functions off as well. Any forum I do go to (Which is only a few, and rarely viewed) I actively go in and remove the icons, tag lines, footers, change the UI to something basic, and easy to read. I don't care to see what peoples icons are, I don't care what they're taglines say, I don't care about anything other than who posted, and what they had to say. I find it hilarious that we're moving on to 4k displays on the desktop and TVs, yet, icons keep getting bigger and bigger, requiring more horsepower from GPUs and CPUs to render, and more desktop real estate used to accommodate those larger icons. Even icons on my freak'n phone are getting bigger, to no advantage. I'm a die hard fan of simplicity, nothing over complex, easy to digest, and love reducing the "eye candy" that has absolutely no relation to what I'm interested in. When we're in an age where monitors on our desktops are now typically wide screen, when a websites design FORCES a portrait view of their content annoys me to no end. ESPECIALLY when their advertisements take away from the content I want to read because that ad wants to take over the 800 pixel wide column of text, while the other 1120 pixels go to digital waste. Forum software is often very misused. They're used as trackers, they're used for notifying of versions of new software, they're used for bug reports. They're used quite often for stuff that ISN'T a conversation. Maintenance of that software also becomes an issue, in that updates have to happen, someone has to manage the software as moderators, clean up crap posts, get rid of spammers, so on and so on. They're a common attack vector for spammers, hackers, and all that. I don't have to worry about someone finding an exploit to the latest flavor of BLOG forum software, and then getting access to a database that contains information that I'm forced to enter that I didn't want to enter at registration. On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Paul Sanderson < sandersonforens...@gmail.com> wrote: > Theres another reason - consistency. > > Just look back thorugh this thread and see how things are quoted, > often differently depending on the mail client used - much easier to > read when a quote is nicely formatted in a highlighted box. > > Then (just from this thread) there is formatting of dates - all > different and with differing timezones, depending on the users > settings. Trivial but forum software takes care of all of this for > you. > > Tends to be die hard linux users who like mail lists (and text only > email) and the rest of us have moved on :) > Paul > www.sandersonforensics.com > skype: r3scue193 > twitter: @sandersonforens > Tel +44 (0)1326 572786 > http://sandersonforensics.com/forum/content.php?195-SQLite-Forensic-Toolkit > -Forensic > <http://sandersonforensics.com/forum/content.php?195-SQLite-Forensic-Toolkit-Forensic> > Toolkit for SQLite > email from a work address for a fully functional demo licence > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
