Quote - "Fear it was not designed for speed. Check out those already infamous yelow pentagons - each is a UNIQUE graphic (that just look the same) so each loads individually and visibly slowly, and hammers my bandwidth - let alone what it does to the server. [Right-click and View Image one and look at it's URL....]"

i agree with you here. the priorities and execution of this forum just don't add up to speed.. as you mentioned, it appears the "stars" graphic is dynamically built according to each post it's heading. that's nuts! not to mention, each icon is produced at 100 quality.. not that it would save a whole boat load of bandwidth, but 80 quality would be fine.. it's the principle of it... "OMG, they are downloading the CSS on every page! What a hoot! It's like a browser history lesson - (Maybe "How Not To Progress" would be a good title?)"

have you looked at the embedded css? yikes! no wonder they couldn't implement RSS, or any other features from, oh, 1998 and forward.. i truly don't understand why they even bothered to code this trainwreck.. there are probably ten fully capable, fast, well designed, feature rich bulletin boards they could have used.. it's just baffeling!