It's bad on Opera and "OK" on Chrome (checked on Win7 / OSX), but it's definitely noticeable when you close The Verge and go to someone else's site.
edit: just checked your link. Urg, they really need to stop people being able to post images, my opinion of the quality of that site just dropped sharply.
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Really? It works fine for me. That said, they could do with paginating their comments, or something- take this page for example:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/28/2829143/apple-ipad-3-event...
full of comments (with images!) that slow down the page load.
It's bad on Opera and "OK" on Chrome (checked on Win7 / OSX), but it's definitely noticeable when you close The Verge and go to someone else's site.
edit: just checked your link. Urg, they really need to stop people being able to post images, my opinion of the quality of that site just dropped sharply.