Please don't post large animated GIFs

Vanity ^ | 24Oct15 | Palmer

[palmer]

My lack of bandwidth is because I live way out in the woods and away from the putzes who are screwing up our country and civilization. I could stay in the city and try to fight them in person but I think it is better to stay away from them and prepare.

[Reynoldo]

Not guilty

[fieldmarshaldj]

What a beautiful doll. Why can’t I find someone like that ? :-(

[Mariner]

Dayum

Is that girl somebody famous?

If she aint, she ouhgtta be.

[palmer]

Thanks for the idea. Do you know if it blocks the animated gifs above? If so can I selectively turn them on like Click-to-Flash? Does it leave regular gifs alone?

[Kirkwood]

I think the source of your problem is not your IP bandwidth, but you computer/browser needs tuning. I have medium speed DSL and the gifs you complained about loaded in under 5 seconds.

[GregoTX]

What about the folks that enjoy large animated gif’s ?

That doesn't matter, everyone must yield to the complainers in today's world.

[palmer]

BTW, a quick workaround for those of you who struggle with this issue, is to hit escape. You have to wait until the thread is mainly loaded otherwise you will get a partial page and that will be useless. So scroll down past the large animated GIFs that are struggling to load, then make sure the page is loaded to the end (copyright notice). Then hit escape once or twice.

The large animated GIFs will stop trying to load. The ones that have already loaded will stay intact and will be cached for the next time. I can sort of get by with that technique especially in a thread like these that is larded up with some big ones. Lucky for me, the big ones in post 30 were able to load completely before I hit escape.

[moovova]

Thank goodness for high-speed internet connections.

[maine-iac7]

I’m sorry you are stuck using 20 year old technology, but exactly why should everyone else on FR be limited by your problem?

Exactly

[moovova]

“BTW, a quick workaround for those of you who struggle with this issue, is to hit escape. “

I’ve tried the Escape button numerous times but I never go anywhere. I also have a “Reset” button but I’m afraid to use it because I might wind up in the same place as Hillary Clinton.

[palmer]

I have cellular that fades in and out. Sometimes I get good performance. But the GIFs that have not loaded like the baby in the ball are beyond my network capacity unless I hit reload, go do something else for 10 minutes and come back.

[palmer]

Hey look, if I hadn’t started this thread, you would not have seen post 30. So at least give me some credit for that.

[cripplecreek]

Here's a really good one that makes me giggle uncontrollably.

[palmer]

4MB saved to disk, not too bad. Took about a minute to download. It’s ok, but not as good as post 30.

[gogeo]

“You never called!

[cripplecreek]

LOL

[Bullish]

You could take your complaint to Jim And John and see if they want to limit people's upload privileges here. You also could invest the time and money and make your own forum and then YOU could set all the rules and posting guidelines.

If neither of those work for you then I think you should find another option that does. Don't try to tell others how they should use this terrific site. They are sharing some pretty cool stuff that many of us are able to enjoy. I have FIOS and all my stuff loads in a blink of an eye and many others here are not bothered at all by animated gifs.

Kinda reminds me of our current education system. Let's dumb all education down so nobody is left behind even those who refuse to take part in the assigned school work.

[Skooz]

I tried. Really, I tried.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Must have been a third-world drive by!