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Whenever I click a ping.fm image link, the page takes a long time to load, and sometimes returns an error and doesn't load at all. Is ping.fm currently over capacity? I ask, because it seems that the last few days have proven to be a lot to handle for the service, if the load times for pages are any indication. Is capacity being increased? Ping.fm is a great service, and I'm hoping it's just hurricane Gustav in the US or some other temporary spike that's causing this.

Can the ".jpg" extension be added to picture links? It would help the images load automatically in site like Plurk.