The new image preview feature on the forums results in absolutely gargantuan forum posts, in terms of the amount of content to download, in any significant thread where people are posting links to images. This frequently occurs on threads where people are posting links to artwork for tokens -- like the character-roster post. Not only does this slow loading (important for mobile devices on 3G), but for all of us on metered broadband thanks to a mobile plan, such threads can consume a ton of download quota just from a single load of the page. "Hide preview" needs to be the DEFAULT, with the image only loading if you click "Show preview". This will also result in behavior like the forum previously used. If we wanted to embed the image visibly, we'd have used the option that let us do that, rather than linking to it! (Also important in case some joker decides to post NSFW material.)
