[nohbody]

HTTP 304, Not Modified?

There's no accounting for an inconsiderate user base. This has always been a big problem for 4chan. I remember several instances where the site was effectively taken offline for days by a JavaScript virus embedded in PNG images that required the user to follow directions in the image in order to spread.

[redthrowaway]

That wasn't /b/tards being inconsiderate, just mind-numbingly retarded. There's been a few JS worms like that, and it's almost always complete morons spreading them.

[nohbody]

The point being that if 4chan users are (on the whole, anyway) too stupid to not spread JS viruses, asking them to not poll the servers so much is certainly a lost cause.

Getting the extension authors on board is probably the best option, because there's only a few of them, and they are not stupid. Stupid users don't have the skills to write broken extensions for themselves.

The only alternative would be (as others have said) to add auto-refresh JS to every page and thus bypass the need for extensions entirely. If the number of people who currently use these extensions is small enough, however, this could just as easily drive their traffic up because now every user on the site gets the same functionality without doing anything.

[te_chris]

If moot charges by CPM that could solve his cash problem....