Quote Originally Posted by nawarkk View Post
My car club forum has the chat on top of every page. It was cool for the first couple pages.. then got annoying cause I had to keep scrolling down to get it out of the way. And from what I was discussing with the owner of the forum, it slows the website down majorly.
Yes it would, it would be substantially slower because everyone that is logged in on the forum in at least 1 tab/thread (I tend to run a couple; home, chat, and multiple threads at once) would be sending and receiving for just the chat box. Not just load the current page, no more data sending/receiving, but constant, from every thread, from everyone logged in... that's alot of packets coming and going