OT: why do web BBS's and blogs get so slow?

[Leif K-Brooks]

Max M wrote:
> Leif K-Brooks wrote:
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>> Max M wrote:
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>>> Or even faster if "Hi <username>" was two gifs that could be loaded.
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>> Please, don't lose accessibility for some petty speed gain.
> 
> I was talking about how to optimize for speed, and how designs can be 
> changed for the purpose of speed.
> 
> When you do that, somethings got to give.
> 
> Sometimes you don't have the technological possibility to do it right. 
> Then a "hack" like that can be in order.

I would take a slightly slower site over one that I can't use any day. 
How on earth do you expect blind people to use your site? What about 
people with text browsers or images disabled?