Yea, this is a problem that I don't think has been addressed here. Lots of people still have dialup, I am one of these people. Everytime I come to this forum I have to wait 30 seconds for it to load because of the unnecessary garbage that is posted at the top.
Don't get me wrong, I dig the color scheme and buttons, but all the nonsense that is above the topics is annoying and takes forever to load.
I think a change is needed.