I sure do miss the standard top nav links Next image, Previous image (i.e. forward and backward steps) in the Gallery (at least the Poser Gallery that I daily peruse). Why were they eliminated? It's a hassle having to back up to the Thumbnails page on every other click, just to get to the next image in the Gallery. Please tell us this new scheme is just a temporary step and the paging links will be restored to a nav line "real soon now".

This was disabled to speed up the site. Once the community side is converted they should be restored. SndCastie

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Umm, okay... technical question here. How exactly does this speed up the site in any meaningful way? It doesn't take hardly anything to draw up a temp query URL for the next 'page', considering that each user will have a unique MySQL sess* file sitting in /tmp anyway. IF they're that strapped for CPU cycles, a query URL construct could be built with a 5-20 second lifetime, then disbursed to any session asking for a page with that URL in it as part of a user page load for the duration of the URL's lifetime. This way you can still have the buttons, but only have to build a pair of URLs for them once every so many seconds, instead of a pair per customer per page request. Is Bondware that much in need of a roll-back and re-write, or is it perhaps that underpowered hardware may be the problem? I'm asking this because if they're having to shave all these tiny nickel-and-dime bits off to scrounge CPU cycles, then the problem has to resolve down to one of those two conditions. /P

If you've ever looked at the SQL that appears when the database connection goes away, you'd have your answer.

Numerous similar and complex queries for tiny bits of page output.