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I kinda think you are? Zero of that is true for me, and I mean zero.

Hitting enter searches for me. It shows results instantaneously. It says clearly at the top in big letters "7,636 results for cat" so you know that you can pretty much hit "show more" endlessly. Which instantly loads. And when I click on something yes there is a 2nd scrollbar (not 3) but it's only for the "object details" sidebar... it doesn't apply to the main page viewer part. And the back button works perfectly.

Honestly it sounds like you just have a terrible network connection maybe, or they had temporary traffic congestion? Or what browser are you using... perhaps it's one they haven't tested against? (I'm using Chrome on a MacBook.)

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I don't really want to put more focus on this but...

I was using firefox on a new mac. Some extensions like ublock installed. I just tried again now with a different browser (latest vivaldi, no extensions) and it behaves the same (search bar, but only if you have "collection images" highlighted, enter key works as expected if you have "all" highlighted). I am still experiencing the slowness and image "popping" when using the show more link. I'm still getting 3 layers of scroll bars on the image viewer. The back button is a little bit better but of course since it's some psuedo-infinite-scroll when I click back I'm landed back at the top of the list with all my "show more" clicks undone (so lost where I was in the results list as is common with infinite-scroll and SPA).

I can't dispute possibility of network issues, could be the site is being slammed, but speedtest.net says my connection is >300Mbps.

I use Firefox on a Macbook as well, also with ublock.

The site is definitely slow at the moment, but enter key worked for me and on the top of the page I see the number of results that were found...

I have tracker blocking extensions and ad blockers to the hilt, which makes some sites almost unusable. For example: I simply don't see ReCaptchas with how the browser is configured.

The easy solution (if you trust the site) is to restart Firefox without add-ins:

Hamburger Menu > Help > Restart with add-ons disabled

You then get a dialog box, where you can restart in safe mode, or clean-up your Firefox installation.

Don't forget to restart with add-ons re-enabled (can also be done from the help menu.

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