No Freddies this year for FT web site!!!!

Some problems are solveable by further tuning and throwing more hardware but there are other problems that will make this unusable by some people ever. And that is the increase in page sizes. Imagine hitting the reply on a slow bandwidth and waiting for portions of the thread to load!!!!

#1 item for ALL travel related sites that none of the people that design for travelers seem to understand. Travelers are mobile (is this simple concept so difficult to understand?). Travelers do not have good connectivity all the time nor do they have powerful computers. Please make the ability to work with this site using the free computers in RCC at T3 in LHR a mandatory requirement and then worry about features.

1. No one ever solves a scaling problem by adding more features.

2. There is no way to scale to high volumes than to keep it simple.

I strongly recommend turning off every feature you can in this board software to give the basic functionality at minimum bandwidth first. Then you can experiment with turning on one feature at a time. If it cannot be turned off then I am afraid a bad choice has been made for this kind of a site.

Sigh! If I had a FF mile everytime I see a web site builder not understand the audience being catered to, I would be flying free the rest of my life.