I have a reasonable connection, but Pelican?

[Zeke]

Takes 3 minutes to load one page of the 2 spaces dirtbag parking w/o skipping back to the top when I scroll. Sheesh. I've learned to avoid that thread. Random pics thread? No prob. Oh, but the .gif thread? No fruggin way ever.

[Dmitry at Pelican Parts]

We had some issues with the forum earlier in the day, but everything seems to have been resolved. I would try refreshing the Pelican site/forum and re-logging in.

[masraum]

Any thread full of pictures is going to be slow. Each gif is actually a collection of a bunch of pics, kind of like an old school flip-book, so even though they are usually small, you may be loading 10, 20 or 100 of each image. There may be some intelligence in the apps that save them as a single file to not save each full copy, but only save the pixels that change, but it's still going to be a ton of data per pic. Also, gifs even when they aren't animated are generally larger than comparable jpgs.