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In reply to the discussion: Ok who took my avatar? [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I have had to hit reload on just about every thread I have clicked today. Half the signature pictures and some of people's avatars are not loading for me. As I type this, my status bar (I have my status bar at the bottom visible, old Netscape user here), is constantly going back and forth with Connecting to upload.democraticunderground.com...
I think it's just a high traffic day and DU is deciding that our beloved pets and other personal pictures are not worth loading. I blame GrovelBot. He's probably bored and decided to come out and have some fun messing with us today. It's not like he has anything else to do any more. What better time to sneak out of the Archives and wreak havoc?
On edit: For the record, I see a parrot as your avatar when I reload the page and catch that one break every few minutes that will let the page actually load for me today. Pages actually load off and on if I hit Reload often enough. Feels like Dialup, only nothing else is this damn slow in the internet for me. Just DU...