As a "new member" of this forum I have been spending a bunch of time viewing pictures. I'm impressed, but with dial-up service some pages take five or more minutes to fully download and some threads have eight and more pages.
Two things I try to do when I upload pictures to any forum. One, I reduce the picture size (# of pixels) in my photo app, and second, I reduce the picture quality slightly. Just a few percentage reduction in a jpg can make a significant reduction in the file size without losing anything significant on the screen.
As an example, I just now took a 1 meg picture and reduced the picture size by 50% and lowered the quality to 90% and wound up with a 47K file that still viewed nicely on the screen.
Regardless, I am still going to continue to go through all these picture threads. Not only are they enjoyable, I've learned a lot just by looking.
Don