[geor9e]

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.

[KPGv2]

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]

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]

So people waited for 20 seconds to load each page?

[badgersnake]

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

[keithluu]

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]

Just wait until you get to scoring...