> 1.22MB embedded youtube players

A guy who I used to post with wrote a new forum for us all to post on (woo splinter groups). It's pretty cool. One of the things it does is serve a static image of the underlying youtube and then load it on click. When a 'tube might be quoted 7 times on a page - that's a pretty useful trick.

I'd just assumed this was a standard forum feature and then I opened a "Music Megathread" on an ipboard and holy shit loading 30 youtube players was painful.