It's annoying being on the main page and having it move up-and-down because of it. Can't you put it at the bottom, or have to enable it or something?

I second this. I think it happens in the program, too, and it annoys me when I want to read earlier posts.

Mind if I ask you to clarify? I read this mostly as you want it removed entirely from the main page of the forum, though AshArmy read it as though you were talking about an issue in the chat itself. ...I'm a bit confused now which it is.

Yeah, when it says "Refreshing Messages," it extends the page very slightly, which makes it sort of slowly bounce up-and-down as it appears and disappears.

Have you tried the full version of the chat? The problem's nowhere near as bad since more of the chat shows at one time:

http://www.victoryroad.net/misc.php?do=cchatbox

Whoah, we're on about two different issues here.

AshArmy's talking about the fact that when you scroll up on the chat, or try to highlight something and the chat refreshes, it shifts the scroll bar back to the bottom (Which is annoying).

Mezase Master is talking about the fact that when the chat refreshes on the index page the "Refreshing Messages" thingy under the bit where you type nudges the whole page down a few pixels, and then back up (Which is also annoying).

If you could allow me to clarify before deleting my posts... even though both Shade and Jad said what I did anyway...

The chat bump caused are due to the constant refreshing the chat does to prevent dead refresh. (Which usually happens anyway.) However, scrolling up to view the chat shouldn't be that much of a problem if you're using either A. the expanded, full chatbox, or B. the chat program.

Maybe both of the issues can be fixed. And yes, it's still a problem despite being on a 1366x768 resolution :/

Both issues rather annoy me. A solution for Mezase's issue would be - I'm assuming - the staff changing the height of the text area to be a couple of pixels smaller, while keeping the height of the frame, or vice-versa. A solution for Ash's issue is to click the scroll bar to scroll. While annoying, as soon as you move the cursor a pixel after a refresh, it re-scrolls.

Oh yeah, hiding the chat fixed it. Can't believe I overlooked that, thanks!

Freeze said he pinpointed the chat on the forum homepage (visible to everyone logged in, not just those chatting) as the cause of a lot of slowness on the site. To reduce the load, I have removed it from there, and it can only be found from the ChatBox Full link at the top and through the program.

Even better, thank you!

You're welcome. It seems like the site is already a bit faster, which means that yet another silly thing really cost in the end.