I had enough of waiting 5 seconds between page loads so I decided to give the site a boost in performances. The result as you may already see is quite outstanding. The plugin is called ThunderBoard and it is compatible with all modern browsers.
Despite this is a really important update to the site, the plugin is still unstable in many parts, whilst I'm not going to release the plugin anytime soon. Some pages throw random JavaScript errors due to variables not being defined; that is because the big packed script is loaded many times in subsequent page loads. Page-specific stylesheets are not loaded properly, so I had to get rid of them by declaring them as global.
You should, however, be able to slide through MyBBoost sweetly. The chat may also seem weird when you visit the index coming from another page of the site. That's normal and you just need to refresh the page or visit the index directly to be able to use the chat again at it's very best.
If you have any questions or you encounter some issues, feel free to comment down here.
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Known issues
Despite this is a really important update to the site, the plugin is still unstable in many parts, whilst I'm not going to release the plugin anytime soon. Some pages throw random JavaScript errors due to variables not being defined; that is because the big packed script is loaded many times in subsequent page loads. Page-specific stylesheets are not loaded properly, so I had to get rid of them by declaring them as global.
You should, however, be able to slide through MyBBoost sweetly. The chat may also seem weird when you visit the index coming from another page of the site. That's normal and you just need to refresh the page or visit the index directly to be able to use the chat again at it's very best.
If you have any questions or you encounter some issues, feel free to comment down here.
is "ThunderBoard" a separate plugin that one could simply install to make his pages load faster or embedded into Mychat and bugs must be tended to?
@"[Exalented]": ThunderBoard is a separate plugin which has nothing to do with MyChat. It will be available for free once it's stable enough. There are still some issues with some scripts - MyChat included - and I'm actively looking for a definitive solution. Needless to say, every MyBB installation will be compatible with ThunderBoard.