So, taking down another long-standing complaint. Two things were happening:

  • Images would get taken down from imgur on occasion, and forever be broken images.
  • When trying to view a large thread (like the pinned thread), image loading would repeatedly reflow the page, causing the comment box to jump repeatedly. This made viewing the entire thread difficult unless either you waited for all of the images to load, or you viewed the thread's contents one-by-one.

I've now got a sort of image proxy going on idkfa. It will rewrite the img tag in your post, and rewrite it so that it goes through a slapped together proxying service. The image's width and height with be recorded, and will be used to hard-code the width and height of images prior to loading, stopping the browser from reflowing each time a new image would load.

#6865, posted at 2014-12-15 17:28:56 in idkfa