Yep, after 18 years on dA, I closed my account there yesterday.
I had about 2000 photos or so, but a year ago I got too pissed off at how slow and annoying it was to navigate, so I set up an index page on a webhost and use digiKam to create albums.
I update the index page in HTML/CSS and link to the albums.
The albums does have some javascript, that is to enable arrowkey navigation, else it is just pure HTML and CSS, and it is blazingly fast.