ATA must be doing pretty well to run two developers offices, one in Vancouver and one in Redmond,WA. However, their webpage hasnt been updated since GaW and FC have been shut down, they are still on ATA's webpage as current projects. So... Yeah. Who knows.
KaW is pretty dead right now, wc wise and its getting really boring now theres nothing new to shout about, we need a new big update or people will start leaving
One image uses a greater deal of memory to load and slows the page more than rainbow text does, why do you thing it takes time to load up a page with images, gifs filling a page just kill the page completely. You know when the servers are stuggling to load up the page when it's taking a few extra seconds for the page to load, that is related to the netword providers and phone itself as to how fast the loading speed is. Colours are minor and similistic compared to pictures / gifs noticeable affects. For the time I've been using faded Colors I would of noticed how much colours affects the servers in general. Moose even uses the same style in different colours for practically very post he makes. Also each post is limited to 10,000 characters, which is a implemented feature, as a page could hold 100,000 characters. This limit isn't for nothing, someone would of worked out that, that is the optimal amount that a page can hold and still be useable. I can see your point on it using more then normal text, but I've never had a page where its a noticeable difference. And I've done some pretty large walls of text like this one.
Image's are not stored on kaw servers. They are stored as bbcodes/html(?) Of which your device then downloads from the source. It is the action of your device downloading from the source that slows down the page loading. So basically, If everyone did rainbow text and GIF's in a thread, I think that thread would pretty much be not able to open. Easy way to get a thread locked I think.
I don't understand what OP means KaW isn't dying. KaW is a bunch of code. Codes don't die, they get recycled.
Yes more active but content has dumbed down a lot ...had more thought provoking threads before and a lot of it was dealing with RL issues. Forums is mostly chest thumping now ...and trolls (which I'm guilty of both ..lol)