@stylinexpat: Could you please do me (and, perhaps, some others) a favour: Perhaps please, load one or two - rather than several - as it takes an eternity to load - pictures or images per post.
And please, post a few posts at a time, rather than one which may take forever to load.
My apologies, not sure where you are at but on my end there really is no waiting time or really any loading times. Thread posts and images just open right up on both my iPhone and MacBook Pro using Safari browser. If you are using Edge speed in China though then I could see your point. I do remember this website taking time to load posts even without images out of China last week. I guess this depends on where one is at, what Wi-Fi speed they have,what Cell Data speed they have or what browser they are using. In Thailand it was also a little slower loading threads from Mac Forums as well but still faster compared to China. Biggest slowdown is usually from countries with censorship as each page has to go through censorship process first and images take more time to censor.
Do you have Instagram? Do images there take eternity to load also?