Did y'all just add a ton of ads to the site?

[thistlewick]

Sounds more like a bug or maybe some of your add-ons were updated.

bingo, Malwarebytes addon extension for Browser Guard was updated and lost the ability to 'see' and erase from my view, the ads.

 

[tlcmurphy]

@LaFleche for the win!

 

[Sefirothe]

I'm not assuming anything other than what the data proves... that the VAST majority of people on the internet (and especially BYC) have no idea how much it costs to run a FREE service used by millions of people.

If you do... then you're a significantly strong statistical outlier... which is super awesome! I love when people know about tech and how much it costs to run a service like ours!


I'm not sure what our ad-partner being for-profit has to do with any of the above?

Honestly, they are a FANTASTIC ad-network (and I've used dozens over the last 25 years I've been doing this). I'm VERY glad they are for-profit! That allows them to have the resources needed to provide the best service for us as a customer, and best experience for our members!

Would it be too much to ask for the ads to not dynamically resize themselves....constantly? I think I'm clicking one topic in a forum listing and in the half second it takes to click, an ad loads and shifts the page up or down and I either click a different topic or more disingenuously an ad. The full screen ads you have to scroll past are also rather annoying.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Would it be too much to ask for the ads to not dynamically resize themselves....constantly? I think I'm clicking one topic in a forum listing and in the half second it takes to click, an ad loads and shifts the page up or down and I either click a different topic or more disingenuously an ad. The full screen ads you have to scroll past are also rather annoying.

Thanks for bringing this up!

It's definitely SUPER annoying when that happens. We've worked without our ad-partners to minimize this from happening, but once in a while an ad layout issue still presents itself and the ads resize.

Again... super frustrating, I know!

We'll keep working on trying to keep this from happening.