A lot of the content on the site now loads dynamically using AJAX. Any content box that has the refresh icon is content that is being loaded with AJAX. There are a lot of benefits to this which include:
-A page can now load quicker since it doesn't have to wait for the content within those boxes
-You can click the reload icon to reload the content in a content box without having to reload page
-Some content boxes automatically reload every number of seconds (such as 'Your Online Friends') and only does so if the window is active
-The content only loads if the window and page is active which means that if someone opened a bunch of tabs, the content in those boxes will not load until the user goes to that tab (currently removed; it'll be added back once I get this functioning properly in all browsers)
-Some content boxes can be navigated without leaving the page (such as the 'Page Comments', which was recently migrated to AJAX from iframes, and the YouTube uploader, which is currently under construction) but optionally you can still open those links in their own page by right clicking or middle clicking
-I have more control over how content is displayed on a page compared to how I was going about content before
-For some future migrations, it'll allow users to obtain more information on a page without having to leave a page (instead of having to go from page to page to sort through screenshots for example, they'd just continue to load in their content box)
-All content boxes can be viewed in a full page if you click their header name (this offers more customization and a full page to view it)

I also changed the way that hovering over usernames is handled. Before it would load an iframe in the Information panel but now it simply uses AJAX just like everything else mentioned above. This allows the content to load far quicker. I also made it so that you have to hover the mouse over the name for 0.25 seconds which will help prevent accidental hovers and it also helps prevent users abusing it by hovering over a bunch of names quickly.

All of this is part of my huge effort to greatly reduce the overall strain on the site so that I can merge 2 of my servers into 1 server resulting into me saving $375 a month. I plan to make a lot more of the content boxes of the site use AJAX (such as the screenshots and video sections of the game pages) and after I'm doing migrating a lot of the site's content to AJAX, I'm going to then make a lot of the content boxes utilize cached content that doesn't need to render data and connect to the DB on every page load.

EDIT: I should also point out that these updates should result into less strain client side. The pages should have a little less HTML overall and should use less of your computer's resources. Once I'm completely finished, this will be even more the case.

So that may explain a few things...I was wondering when I was starting my posting spree. So much change in so little time with each day this site changes with new updates, or most of the time.

I noticed the "online friends" box auto refreshing and I thought that was really cool. Since I'm on a slow connection and a budget laptop, reloading the page sometimes takes a while, so I'm liking that feature. Just out of curiosity, do you think we'll ever see the same thing happen to the Message Center, having inboxes and notifications auto refreshing, as well?

I thought I noticed that happening. Either that or I was finally going absolutely insane. This is remarkable, thanks for doing this. I have the same question as Moss, mostly pertaining to notifications. I don't like refreshing the page every 10 minutes to check if I have any notifications haha.

All the widgets seem blank/empty for me when I load any page. Here's a screenshot of what I mean: http://i.imgur.com/MICjcii.png

But each widget appears normally if I either click the refresh button on all of the widgets or open a new tab and go back to the vizzed tab I was on. A little annoying that I have to do this everytime I go to a different page so the widgets aren't empty but seems like it's a small problem. Probably a minor bug where the widget should begin to load once you go to a vizzed page, not only when refreshing or going back to a tab. (Is it only me who has this problem though?)

Other than that, it's pretty cool. Thanks!

Glad to see the site start updating to (somewhat) current web standards! Great work!

Lexatom :
m0ssb3rg935 : Yeap I definitely want to do it with that as well at some point.

Mohammedroxx3 : I'm not sure why you'd be experiencing that issue. It happens on every page? I made a small adjustment, let me know if that helped.

Jordanv78 : Exactly lol.

Davideo7- It still happens but now all the widgets appear as soon as I click any link. (so it shows up for like one second once I click a link before it loads the new page and disappears again) It does seem to happen on all pages.

I'm using google chrome on Windows 10. 

This is so cool! Good job David, the site is now faster, in fact the theme of this forum should be...





Davideo7 :

I'm experiencing the same things as Moha (partly because I'm also using Chrome on Windows 10).

It doesn't happen just with the widgets on the sides. Even the widgets in the Board, just before the forums are displayed, are completely blank for a while before actually loading.

Despite that, it's kind of cool to see the widgets update in real time. If this also lowers the client side strain, then we will also face much less times the errors loading the page that have plagued us for the last months, which was much needed.

Davideo7 : Awesome!  Thank you so much for working on making Vizzed faster and more efficient, we really appreciate all of your time and efforts!

Mohammedroxx3 :
EX Palen :
I removed that feature for now. Content should load fine for you guys now.

Davideo7- It seems to work perfectly fine for me now and it still auto-updates. 

This is very neat, will you be adding AJAX to new post page at all or on the forum index?

AJAX heavily sites like Hotmail and Facebook can take me several minutes to load up (due to my low speed net) but on here it loads pretty fast 10-30 seconds per page (which is basically the same timeframe it took without the AJAX).

JigSaw : I'm getting more and more comfortable with AJAX so because of that, I'll most likely utilize it more throughout the site as long as it doesn't negatively affect anything. A lot of sites use it poorly so I'll avoid that for sure.