Glad to see most of you like it! Made some tweaks today based on the feedback.
- I changed the color of the text in the "gold" sections to the Bully blue color, however it does seem a bit dark. Leaving it for now.
- Re-enabled CloudFlare to see if it helps (used to cause problems but seems much more stable now.)
- Enabled some caching options
- Static "Bully Blue" background color to begin, the background image will fade in once loaded.
As for the slow-loading, part of the problem is most of the avatars are either (or a combination of):
a) Movie length GIFs
b) Loading from a slow external website
c) Ridiculously over-sized
From now on, all external avatars will be downloaded and served up by Bully-Board. All avatars must be 125x125. If they are not, they will be resized for you. If your GIF is larger than 125x125, it will be converted to a static image.