<------Queen of Slow Connection!!
I'm been moaning for quite some time now. The pics take SO long to load, and some sigs were freezing my computer! Well Elvis made everyone shrink the sigs and now he made it so attachments don't show up until you click, but this has NOT helped me! The sig I hated most, Naya's, is still here, and still locking up my system. I'm going to have to put her on ignore, sorry, nothing personal. I just cannot deal with that #@%^$ sig anymore!!!!!!!
As far as attachments, one like Bonochick posted that are links you can click on are okay, but the way the forum attachments now come up it hurts me more than helps! By the time I click on the 'attachment' and bring up 'attachment viewer' and then have to click back to the forum (each move takes several minutes for me when it's really slow!) it would've been easier just to load the friggin pic itself! Olive had a good idea about selecting to have only 10 posts per page and that may help some of you but in my case it's the extra clicking on things that goes so slowly for me so it still slows me down and is more annoying than waiting for the pics. Sometimes I have to wait 3 minutes or more just for the icon to let me click, then it doesn't actually click for several more minutes, so it takes more time, groan! I hate to sound bitchy, but all the things that have been set up to help those with slow computers have not helped or have made things even more difficult. Rant over.
I think what we should do in the slow connection club is just post one or two average size pics per post, and when it gets to about 30 posts start a new one. Like Blueberry said I know the mods want stuff all put in one thread as much as possible but if those are making it impossible for some people to see them, it's sad. Sometimes, many times, I look at a thread, sigh, and don't even bother to open it because I know what's waiting for me. If there is a way we can have links, but not like the way the forum attachments are working, that might be good for us. So verte, count me in the club, whatever you decide to do.