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epi0Bauqu on May 28, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: The case for pictures next to usernames on Hacker ...

On the user side, you could presumably turn them off. As for server performance, Y Combinator should be able it.

huhtenberg on May 28, 2008 [–]

I assume you meant "turn them on".

Adding a visually intrusive feature and enabling it by default is not the best thing to do, especially when the understated appearance is the feature of the website.

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