Wondering why some thread are so slow to come up?

[digitaldrummer]

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it's because people have dead links to offsite avatars. yes, I already talked one guy into fixing his and *voila!* it was like magic.

I'm not going to PM everyone that has this issue so please check your own avatars--if they say "failed to load", please go in and fix yours (or delete it) so we all don't to feel the effects--and you will surely appreciate others doing it for you. and if not, do it for me, OK?

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[centurymantra]

That's actually a really cool fact-revealing. I, too, have often wondered why certain threads are painfully slow. I always figured there was something behind this, as it wasn't a one-time occurrence with the thread and would always load slow, and at odds with the rest of the board.

[Scodiddly]

The other thing is that some people have really big avatars. The webpage ends up resizing them, but everybody still has to download this huge file before that can happen.