I find that threads where there are link after link in one post after the other take a very long time to load. After a few hundred posts containing links it appears that babble's program does not work well. It seems to me how long a thread takes to load is somehow linked to the length of the thread and the number of external links.
Maybe a resident techie can tell me whether it is possibly the problem that Boom Boom on dial up is experiencing. When I use a rerouting program for security in internet cafes I get the 502 Error message on most of the BC election threads and some of NDPP's long threads that contain many great links but little else.