The Crackchat

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Who else is lagging terribly when they touch the Crackchat?

I've got the suspicion that AIM chat rooms, as they grow old and accumulate a lot of history, get unstable and cause laggage, and that it might be healthier to change the room once a week or so.

The last two times that I went in there, my computer behaved as if it was seriously on downers all of a sudden.

That is my present hypothesis. I need more evidence, though - so who else has problems, and for whom does the Crackchat work absolutely fine and fast? And, erm, can you say which operating system your computer has, as well?

Thanks you for your two cents!

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[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

I don't know if everyone was lagging earlier today, but most people seemed to be. (And I've got Windows XP.)

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Can you ask people in the chat, if you're in there at the moment? I'm so not going in just now, because of that lag thing - I need my computer working.

AIM: sootymun

[key-youth-bert.livejournal.com]

It seems to be alright now, but around 2-3 in the afternoon was when it seemed to be really bad.

[saddle_tramp]

I'm just a random lurker who hardly has time to even read a tenth of the threads, but I maybe can help with this. lol

Theoretically, the AIM rooms shouldn't have a concrete history to bog them down. The only log of any kind kept of the rooms, unless something has changed recently, is what the people who have been there have saved. That's why, when you enter a chat room (again, unless it's changed drastically in recent months) you can't read what happened before you entered without someone sending it to you.

That said, your problem may be the ads. AIM's ads are hell on any system running Win98, and AIM doesn't allow opting out of them; it's crappy that way, among many others. lol If everyone was lagging the same day at the same time, I'd suspect a new ads being in the system to flummox up the works a bit more than usual, AIM having system-wide problems, or that you were in a room with high (over 100 users at once) traffic.

If the ads aren't what's bogging your system down, then your own history is the next most likely problem. In the preferences, there's a setting (or used to be) for how many lines of history in chats and IMs that you want your computer to track. If you lower that number drastically, it should help your system, but it makes saving logs a royal pain if you like to do that. It's pretty much a trade-off, and the history bugs combined with the ads are why I switched to Trillian. lol

Trillian has no ads, auto log saving if you want without having to keep the whole convo in your open windows, very little dragging (mine only drags if I'm typing individual posts over drabble-length, a bad habit of mine), and it has all the features of AIM including the ability to use your AIM buddy lists and talk to people on AIM.

Trillian is a free program you can download in several places, but the official website is here:
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/learn/

Hope this helps!

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

*Gives Trillian two thumbs way up.*

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

I installed Trillian now and love it.

It must really have been those ads.