New BYC death on slow connections, slow computers; site crashes and hangs web browser...

[ChickenLegs13]

I just want to say you ladies are awesome.  I  enjoyed reading your debate. You both brought up excellent points while respecting each other and a sense of humor to boot.  Cheers!

Umm...I'm no lady. My wife calls me a male chauvinist pig and I agree with her.
Make mine a shot pf Crown Royale on the rocks. Cheers to you too!

 

[ivan3]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...with-the-forum-presumably-because-of-the-adds

 

[Hinotori]

I had some issues using Internet Explorer when they first switched over the forum. I use Chrome now. It is much faster and well, about any other browser is better than Internet Explorer. With Chrome you can also add a plugin called AdblockPlus, that will block some ads.

I have to say that the most annoying ads that everyone is complaining about aren't touched by Adblockplus. Those pop up ones drive me nuts.

 

[Valk]

I just want to say you ladies are awesome. I enjoyed reading your debate. You both brought up excellent points while respecting each other and a sense of humor to boot. Cheers!

How very nice of you to say, juststruttin. Cheers!

Thanks! I sure do wish more people I disagree with presented themselves as Valk.
So many are quick to sling insults and my comebacks are immature and never very clever...so I just don't bother.

AmyWho, it was a pleasure conversing with you. Thanks for presenting yourself in a kindly manner.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

We appreciate the feedback and the discussion. We wish we didn't have to have any ads at all. We'd LOVE it if the Bill Gates Foundation or Google Ventures dumped a bunch of money into BYC to promote raising backyard chickens and remove all our expenses. Unfortunately they aren't returning our calls... so we're forced to have ads.

You can read more about the ads, and reporting ones that you feel are inappropriate here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...he-ads-on-the-right-of-the-page#post_10043121


Also, please remember you can remove 100% of all ads by becoming a GFM. For less than the cost of a cheap dinner and movie, you can be ad-free on BYC for a whole year!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-memberships-help-support-backyardchickens

 

[AmyWho]

We appreciate the feedback and the discussion. We wish we didn't have to have any ads at all. We'd LOVE it if the Bill Gates Foundation or Google Ventures dumped a bunch of money into BYC to promote raising backyard chickens and remove all our expenses. Unfortunately they aren't returning our calls... so we're forced to have ads.

You can read more about the ads, and reporting ones that you feel are inappropriate here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...he-ads-on-the-right-of-the-page#post_10043121


Also, please remember you can remove 100% of all ads by becoming a GFM. For less than the cost of a cheap dinner and movie, you can be ad-free on BYC for a whole year!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-memberships-help-support-backyardchickens

The only ones that I feel are inappropriate are the ones that take up the whole screen.
Oh. Wait. That's almost all of them.

 

[XtremeRooster]

We appreciate the feedback and the discussion. We wish we didn't have to have any ads at all. We'd LOVE it if the Bill Gates Foundation or Google Ventures dumped a bunch of money into BYC to promote raising backyard chickens and remove all our expenses. Unfortunately they aren't returning our calls... so we're forced to have ads.

You can read more about the ads, and reporting ones that you feel are inappropriate here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...he-ads-on-the-right-of-the-page#post_10043121


Also, please remember you can remove 100% of all ads by becoming a GFM. For less than the cost of a cheap dinner and movie, you can be ad-free on BYC for a whole year!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-memberships-help-support-backyardchickens

I have a fast dsl connection and pc. My pc and dsl at work is even faster. The dentastix and dove ads will probably get this website blocked by my employer because they popup too frequently and steal bandwidth. So I won't be able to peek in occassionaly from work. I am so sick of the popups stalling my pc that I am ready to bail on BYC. You can be sure of one thing I will never buy my dog dentastix and I have almost eliminated Dove products from my house. Annoying ads NEVER get my business EVER! How much is the commercial free version of BYC? I would rather pay a annual membership fee than deal with the pop ups.

I can read one post then I have to clear popups to read another. It is worse than trying to watch a football game on tv. Touchdown!~commercial break, First down~commercial break, Injury~commercial break, Quarter change~commercial break, penalty flag~commercial break, interception~commercial break, disputed play~commercial break, field goal~commercial break, fumble~commercial break, time out~commercial break, incomplete pass~commercial break, Kickoff~commercial break, punt~commercial break, and heaven forbid it rains satelite signal loss

not to mention the pleasure of listening to seven has beens opinions of the game for halftime! I am so glad modern tv has MUTE! and channel recall!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Just to clarify, when y'all say "take over the screen", the ads shouldn't be doing that unless you interact with them. We also don't have any "popup" ads, but we do have the ads that will expand if you interact with them.

If you're seeing ads taking over the screen without interacting with them (for example, some of the ads from one of our provider requires that you hover your cursor on them for more than 3 seconds) then please let us know. Screenshots and details about what happened work best.

 

[stoopid]

I had a bunch of issues when I was using Microsoft Explorer.
I have switched to Google Chrome and it has been much better.

 

[Judy]

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Nifty gave the link with all the info, but it is $12 for 6 months or $20 for one year, and has a number of benefits besides being able to turn off ads. You can purchase this in the Store link at the top of the page.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/byc-memberships-help-support-backyardchickens