12th February 2005, 12:37 PM
It is affected the first time and then every time a new viewer enters the thread! And in this case every time that happens 10mb of their bandwidth is used up. And Homestar is very popular... I'm sure a lot of forums and stuff direct linked the file. The obvious result is what geoboy said happened -- the site getting overloaded and going down.
As for stopping flash movies... you can (right click and unclick 'play'), but it's annoying... why oh why can't Homestar do what most all flash movie makers do and have a 'Play' button menu when the flash loads? Why have the movie start as soon as it loads? It's annoying! And most flash movies do it better!
As for stopping flash movies... you can (right click and unclick 'play'), but it's annoying... why oh why can't Homestar do what most all flash movie makers do and have a 'Play' button menu when the flash loads? Why have the movie start as soon as it loads? It's annoying! And most flash movies do it better!