OK, so there's probably not that many of you who browse my friends page directly. But if you do, or if you read my journal directly, you'll notice a change; I've now cut both of them down to 10 posts per page.
Why? Well, LiveJournal seems to be having scalability problems again lately. And that, combined with the steadily decreasing bandwidth of our crappy dial-up connection (we've considered switching to an RFC1149 implementation, or possibly RFC2549, for performance reasons), means I can't get more than about 10 to 15 posts to reliably load at a time. Now, my friends page typically runs 30-40 posts a day, but between Earthlink and Livejournal, it's easier to load the page and then open two or three successive previous-page windows (or tabs) than it is to reload, and reload, and reload, and reload, hoping for the page to load at least back to the first unread post.
No certainty, indeed.
