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geor9e | 11 days ago

It's too slow. It takes at least five seconds to load the next picture after you answer. You should probably just preload all the pictures client-side. I wasn't able to get through it.

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KPGv2|11 days ago

It's a 25-year old website and most people were on slow dial-up connection. No one would've stuck around for 17 images to be pre-loaded.

viraptor|10 days ago

That's not what preload is for. You don't wait for the extra images on the first page. You start loading them after the page is complete, so that the next page loads faster.

missingdays|10 days ago

So people waited for 20 seconds to load each page?

badgersnake|10 days ago

Being on the Hacker News front page probably has something to do with that.

keithluu|10 days ago

Right? I was thinking how come it takes such a simple site to load. Then I saw the footer, it's 25 years old.

butlike|10 days ago

Just wait until you get to scoring...