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 Post subject: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 12:55 am 
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RSBandB now regularly reaches our traffic limit of 1TB of data per month, and because bandwidth is expensive we have decided to do something to try and reduce our usage.

By reducing the colour palette on most of our site and images to gray-scale, we estimate that page payload will be reduced by about 33%. This combined with a change next week of RSBandBUpdate to a slightly lower bit-rate should give us room to grow for the next year.

Since our site is mostly gray anyways, and our podcast is of higher audio quality than most out there, most of you shouldn't even notice much of a difference.


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PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 12:55 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 1:23 am 
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**** that's weird looking. So this is what the internet would of looked like if it was invented in the 1940s i think some of your smilies are **** though.

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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 8:23 am 
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Mike wrote:
RSBandB now regularly reaches our traffic limit of 1TB of data per month, and because bandwidth is expensive we have decided to do something to try and reduce our usage.

By reducing the colour palette on most of our site and images to gray-scale, we estimate that page payload will be reduced by about 33%. This combined with a change next week of RSBandBUpdate to a slightly lower bit-rate should give us room to grow for the next year.

Since our site is mostly gray anyways, and our podcast is of higher audio quality than most out there, most of you shouldn't even notice much of a difference.


"Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website"
Sigh...Shane will not be happy with you Mike, you forgot the Greyscale pictures of Stephen Harper.

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All is well now. :)

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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 11:01 am 
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Those of us who are True Conservatives are quite "colourful" though (I, myself included). So, this is somewhat of a misnomer. Nevertheless, quite amusing on this Day of Fools! LOL

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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 12:27 pm 
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Looks like this still works fine
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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 1:33 pm 
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Uncle Dano wrote:
Those of us who are True Conservatives are quite "colourful" though (I, myself included). So, this is somewhat of a misnomer. Nevertheless, quite amusing on this Day of Fools! LOL

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Idk. I tend to be pretty **** black and white most of the time.

How come we just didn't ban Creepy? Doesn't he use like 500GB alone every month?

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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
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Did the legend just get rearranged because of this? haha, nice joke, putting newspaper staff above other groups


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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 3:25 pm 
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So. After posting my original message i buggered off. I was standing in a bar today and a mate of mine reminded me what day it was. And it suddenly dawned on me. **** you guys. :cry:

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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 1st, 2012, 11:47 pm 
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We're back to normal now. The reduction in bandwidth per image was really only about 10% at best for those of you who are curious.


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 Post subject: Re: Making RSBandB a True Conservative Website
PostPosted: April 2nd, 2012, 10:33 am 
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I have to admit, this is probably one of your better April Fools' jokes. Fairly believable(that is, if done on any other day ;) ) and not too intrusive(I.E. doesn't actually affect the use of the site).

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