Can on heavy load days such as this can we suspend avatars and sigs to lighten up the server load so we can get posting here without waiting 3 minutes at a time or is it just the volume of people that causes the slow down?
Avatars and sigs are so limited in terms of size, I can't see it being the major difference maker. Something you may want to consider though Petrozza is turning off the mandatory in-house uploading/hosting of the avatars.. and make us link from imageshack or something.