I'm thinkin' that these animated avatars are not so good for the site - can we please change them to non-animated avatars, i.e. ones that don't move?
I was actually wondering the same thing. I kept thinking that some of the new "slowness" of my reading and scrolling was due to the latest Safari update. However, I have noticed that when I come up on a page that does not have an animated avatar, the page scrolls normally - no "stutter". I have a feeling the animated avatars are eating up bandwidth.
Is there a way to non-animate those avatars?
*I remember a similar problem here when some of us tried to post audio and video clips directly into the posts.