After looking over this thread again, I think one of the areas of contention is the fact that if you only look at one gallery, you don't see an issue. Like was said above, 1703 images in 30 days is only 60 images a day, and if you just stayed in the Bryce Gallery, it wouldn't take long to go through them (about 4 pages worth at 18). However, if you are looking at the What's New All, there is 16000 images in 30 days, or over 500 images a day (which is roughly 25-30 pages to sift through...

Just thought I'd throw that out to crowd...