If you scroll down the news section far enough, your tab crashes reproducibly (for me, when I get to mid-2018).
/ucf/news
Firefox 68.0.2
Install ad blocker. Block content from "media.alienwarearena.com/thumb_720x405/". Alternatively, install more RAM (untested). After blocking the thumbnails I can scroll back to May 29th, 2017 (without a crash), at which point the site will not load any older news entries, effectively rendering those inaccessible.
If you scroll down the news section far enough, your tab crashes reproducibly (for me, when I get to mid-2018).
/ucf/news
Firefox 68.0.2
Install ad blocker. Block content from "media.alienwarearena.com/thumb_720x405/". Alternatively, install more RAM (untested). After blocking the thumbnails I can scroll back to May 29th, 2017 (without a crash), at which point the site will not load any older news entries, effectively rendering those inaccessible.
This is not just only the News section. This is because whole site engine is old Frankenstein monster which devours PC's brains (RAM) on a couple with modern browsers.
For example, you can open Videos section, in Firefox at Windows it will take 500-700 megabytes of RAM (according to Process Explorer's "System commit" which show real RAM usage). Then you will wait. Pass about a hour and those 0.5 GB of used RAM magically becomes 1-4 GB. And do not risk to open web developer's instruments (F12) and leave them for that hour. You can regret this.
There is need of a lot of work for site optimization. For both: front-end and back-end. But this 10yrs redesign touches only style - colors and background images. Not the way site actually works in your browser and definitely not the way servers works.
Don't get me wrong. I think colors are nice. This light one mobile theme is pretty good (aside from temporary bugs). And I'm believe there is dark theme and PC theme on the way. If not, well... I believe people will make it by themselfs. Dark themes are world's trend for last few years, and this trend is on top right now.
Administration, its totally not offense, its just my personal desire of things being better. Hire some actual developer which will bring life to the code and save your money for the site traffic and bring more people by making good UI/UX.
By the way, about wasted traffic. Did you saw that whole notifications info with their data sending over and over again every minute twice. I mean it. Not every 30 seconds. Just twice every 60 seconds. Doubled wasting.
And that redundant front-end engine that compiles JSON data to HTML code. You already have no respect for traffic volume and already compiling this JSON text from database at the server side. Why bother client's browsers to recompile this text from JSON to HTML? That's how works sections like Videos or News. But at the forum opposite picture. whole part which contains messages and page numbers comes as HTML.
And that thing when you need to scroll down to the actual end to make engine just start loading of new bunch of content. This is awful! AJAX should load it BEFORE user will see the end of a page.
By the way, I hate this thing at forum, when you read the page, clicks for the next one, got it, and you need to scroll up manually to read new page from start. Hate this. Even thought about fix it in my own userscript. But I have collected too many such things that need to be fixed at the AWA, so I start to believe that this should be done by full-time paid developer.
And again. I mean no offense to anyone working at the AWA. This is just my private humble opinion as developer.
