[Andrew Green]

Originally Posted by JumpD

I consider that a horrible missuse of AJAX. It's doing the same thing as the dreadful AJAX chat script does. Polling the server every 5000 ms. That would bring a lot of sites down. If they have the server power then that's fine. But it is still not what ajax is designed to do. You could do the same thing with php and a header refresh.

Depends... It's not as heavy as someone hitting "Find New Posts" every 5 seconds, or watching the who's online page reload every 5 seconds.

Still, might be best used as a staff only page or even a paid members only page for those with stretched servers.

Now if someone where to make a mod to plop this into the header of every page that gets displayed, that would definately crash and burn