Fred Bauder wrote:
The issue is always download speed when we serve a
diverse international
audience and at least make noises about serving the poor and the third
world. Serving up articles over 100kb long with several images each over
200kb will basically stop a slower computer with limited memory operating
with a modem in its tracks, sometimes even requiring a reboot. Essentially
the site becomes unusable.
The size of the article source text has little correlation with the size
of the HTML output, so that argument is not relevant to this discussion.