Two different studies rate dial-up connectivity at 4% and 17% in the USA. I guess that shows you that at least one of the studies is bad but I don't know which one. Maybe we should assume 10%?
Plus the mobile market is pretty slow in practice, it's tedious to surf non-mobile websites on a 3G phone.
So it's not that a 800x1000 pixel image is that bad a download, 50 to 150kb depending, but an entire thread of them quickly become several mb.
It might be nice if we all simply used the image upload feature rather than hotlinking.
And it would be even better if the site upgraded so that the images could enlarge during mouse-over ;-)
It would solve the NSFW issue nicer too, although people should have the sense not to click on the thread of nudes if they work in a sensitive workplace.
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