For at least a few weeks now, any time I see an imgur link, I dread trying to view it.
For instance, attempting to view this one, which I can't even tell if it's work safe or not, results in 14.4 modem speeds:
http://i.imgur.com/Xpwz9t5.gif
cURL estimates it will take me 15 minutes to download that. ... scratch that, cURL terminated due to the connection being reset after 94kB was retrieved.
Speed tests on speedtest.net manage to pull at least 21Mbps down and push 2.7Mbps up while this is happening.
And nobody else that I've asked has seen any speed problems fetching the same exact image, or any other images on imgur.
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