Oldest active account?

unwashed potato! said:
I'm curious as to what change over the years caused the biggest uproar from users.
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Adding limits to signature sizes and disallowing animated gifs.

It was the right decision, our signatures are compact, neat and tidy.

And attempting to introduce adverts a few years ago. That didn't last long, and neither did the person who tried to do it.
 
Only just realised I’ve been on here for 20yrs now.

Never heard the place before I made an account I don’t think. But yeh… still a decent area of the online world considering all the changes to the “online world” in that 20years.
 
Feek said:
Adding limits to signature sizes and disallowing animated gifs.

It was the right decision, our signatures are compact, neat and tidy.

And attempting to introduce adverts a few years ago. That didn't last long, and neither did the person who tried to do it.
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I guess adblock stopped me seeing the ads as I don't remember that moment.

Whenever I visit another forum signatures are the one thing I notice the most with how bad they can be when there's no limits. More than half the page can be peoples signatures. However decided to restrict those here made a smart move
 
20 years for me too on OCUK.

Does anyone have an image of the old gun avatars?

My oldest online accounts (non-OCUK):

Argos - Mar 1999
GameFAQs - Jan 2000
eBay - Jan 2001 (PayPal in the same year)

I was relatively late to YouTube though, Jan 2007.
 
Feek said:
Adding limits to signature sizes and disallowing animated gifs.
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Entire toy shops out of the pram.

So much drama and fuss over something that was so minor in the scheme of things to get worked up about, but made such an improvement to the forums.


unwashed potato! said:
I guess adblock stopped me seeing the ads as I don't remember that moment.

Whenever I visit another forum signatures are the one thing I notice the most with how bad they can be when there's no limits. More than half the page can be peoples signatures. However decided to restrict those here made a smart move
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IIRC back when we imposed the limit the average screen resolution was 1024 by 768. from memory there were signatures that took up well over half the screen (400+ high), or were stacked.

Meanwhile we had some sigs in the 500kb+ range at a time when most people were still on 56k, and browsers didn't cache as well, and most machines had something like 32-64mb of ram, so it was a serious performance issue, and the one that always sticks in my mind was the IIRC animated gif of the Star Wars Darth Maul fight from ep1? that was something like 1mb, that one took forever to load if you'd cleared your cache or the browser had tidied up to keep your cache within a reasonable (for the time) size.
 
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Werewolf said:
So much drama and fuss over something that was so minor in the scheme of things to get worked up about, but made such an improvement to the forums.
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We did it in two stages, didn't we? I remember perhaps they were 600 x 150 and then we reduced it to 400 x 75 at 20kb.
 
Feek said:
We did it in two stages, didn't we? I remember perhaps they were 600 x 150 and then we reduced it to 400 x 75 at 20kb.
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Yup that sounds about right, I think the second one was several years later as part of an update to the forum and it was to make things look less crowded on the screen, or reduce was was effectively dead space with no new content.
 
Well it seems the company I thought closed down many years ago still deals online, it's news to me.
I thought it had totally gone.
I've never even had an email off them and I was on their mailing list.
Bugger me.

last email was
Sun, 17 Dec 2017, 09:04
 
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I singed up to the forum in late 1999 when I was upgrading my computer with an AMD Athlon Slot A CPU and 'Gold Fingercard' to enable overclocking, hence how I found this site. Those CPU's were easily overclockable from 550MHz to 900Mhz, using the stock cooler :)

I rejoined when it re-opened post 'Nuke' on 18th October 2002
 
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wsh said:
What date did the forum come into existence?
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About 1999 for the original.
As soon as Spie joined Pete Radford and they started overclocking, Spie put the hardware online and made a forum if I remember correctly.
Celeron 300 was the first chip.
 
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