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Hey,

I'm wondering if by the time 2.0 will be released (which is neither this decade nor the one after ), will the "lite mode" still be necessary? I mean, it was made back in 2001/2002 in vBulletin, MyBB and few others when internet was slow and the theme itself used to eat so much bandwith for clients. But is that still necessary nowadays? I fear a responsive design for the entire board would be much better, I've never heard of anyone using it anyway, and it's just a read-only set of pages, means it's not really a "lighter" version of the whole board but rather an "archive". Any ideas? 

I don't think there is any need for a lite mode once the design is responsive. But since 2.0 will be based on an API/framework, someone could easily create a lite mode if they want.

I don't really see it as an archive either as it doesn't show only the locked forums.

It's been obsolete for a while now.

I don't even allow it in my forums. To much to worry about (I mean, I don't want to take the time checking everything works as expected with each feature I add to my communities).

Totally, I think it's safe to say that in 2014, 56kbps internet connections have practically disappeared.

I also don't think there is a need for Lite mode.