New Ads

[ionel]

2 minutes ago, manatree said:

Am I the only person not seeing a problem?

Maybe ... are you wearing your reading glasses?

[ionel]

It is Monday correct?  Monday is the start of a new week true?  Didn't Bob say they were going to "tweak it" or did he say "twerk it?"  

[MPhillips]

12 minutes ago, ionel said:

It is Monday correct?  Monday is the start of a new week true?  Didn't Bob say they were going to "tweak it" or did he say "twerk it?"  

Bob is just the fall guy for Shillie and his political machine...

[ionel]

39 minutes ago, MPhillips said:

Bob is just the fall guy for Shillie and his political machine...

Is it true Bob locked himself in the Zoo and can't find the key? 

[Gambatte]

3 hours ago, manatree said:

Am I the only person not seeing a problem? I use CHrome on a Windows PC and Safari for iPad & IPhone. I get one pop-up ad with no sound, almost always off to the side. If it does happen to be covering up the content of the thread, one little click on the 'X' and the ad disappears.

Ditto. No annoying ads popping-up mid-screen while scrolling through forum replies. One, small, silent ad off to the side. Firefox on iPad.

[Husker_Du]

(on desktop)

there's one video ad bottom right. you can click it and it goes away (for as long as you're on that page).

there's also a bottom banner ad that's permanent. 

THAT's IT. and that's the way it's staying.

if anyone is experiencing something different i'm all ears. 

[billyhoyle]

On 8/28/2024 at 4:22 PM, Husker_Du said:

Guys, we just changed ad service. 

we didn't 'turn up' frequency of ad placement or anything.

i can understand your hatred of too many ads, but i promise you it's not on purpose. i want everyone to enjoy coming to the site.

it's an entirely new service, so there's bound to be some tweaks. give @BobDole a moment to fine tune it.

and continue to let us know here, what you're seeing (apparently we're all seeing different things).

thank you.

 

25 minutes ago, Husker_Du said:

(on desktop)

there's one video ad bottom right. you can click it and it goes away (for as long as you're on that page).

there's also a bottom banner ad that's permanent. 

THAT's IT. and that's the way it's staying.

if anyone is experiencing something different i'm all ears. 

What's up with the contradiction between the first post of this thread where you say, "We did not turn up the frequency of ad placement or anything," and now saying that every single page we click is going to have a new video pop up ad that automatically plays? 

It's your right to run however many ads as you'd like, but this is by far the most ads I've ever seen on a college wrestling forum. For me, the site is unusable on mobile (chrome or safari). What is wrong with sticking to banner ads? 

This is really the only national wrestling forum, so I'll stick around and post on desktop, but I'm worried this move will cause a number of people to leave and just not post here anymore. 

 

Edited September 10 by billyhoyle

[MPhillips]

'Love it or Leave it'

[Wrestleknownothing]

1 hour ago, Husker_Du said:

(on desktop)

there's one video ad bottom right. you can click it and it goes away (for as long as you're on that page).

there's also a bottom banner ad that's permanent. 

THAT's IT. and that's the way it's staying.

if anyone is experiencing something different i'm all ears. 

That matches my desktop experience. However, the mobile experience (Android/Chrome) is much worse. There are typically two pop up ads at a time covering content. See screenshot below. The ads cover a much larger % of the screen, and always over the content, on mobile.

[ionel]

8 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

That matches my desktop experience. However, the mobile experience (Android/Chrome) is much worse. There are typically two pop up ads at a time covering content. See screenshot below. The ads cover a much larger % of the screen, and always over the content, on mobile.

Wait ... you are getting Honda pop ups?  I always thought of you as more of a BMW guy.  

[alex1fly]

14 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

That matches my desktop experience. However, the mobile experience (Android/Chrome) is much worse. There are typically two pop up ads at a time covering content. See screenshot below. The ads cover a much larger % of the screen, and always over the content, on mobile.

Yeah man. Right now I have two video pop ups stacked, a banner ad at the bottom, and the border of my phone screen is breathing in and out with not an ad but just a teal color. This is peak “you’ve been hacked in 2002” internet experience right here. 

[Husker_Du]

we'll continue to look at mobile. that's too intrusive, i agree. 

[Mr. PeanutButter]

18 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

That matches my desktop experience. However, the mobile experience (Android/Chrome) is much worse. There are typically two pop up ads at a time covering content. See screenshot below. The ads cover a much larger % of the screen, and always over the content, on mobile.

that's a good amount of battery you got there

[Wrestleknownothing]

22 minutes ago, Mr. PeanutButter said:

that's a good amount of battery you got there

Kevin Malone's favorite amount of battery

[ionel]

On 8/30/2024 at 6:00 AM, Husker_Du said:

no. we can't go back.

Sure you can.

[manatree]

On 9/9/2024 at 6:06 PM, Gambatte said:

Ditto. No annoying ads popping-up mid-screen while scrolling through forum replies. One, small, silent ad off to the side. Firefox on iPad.

I was having none of the issues others were having, even from the start. I wonder if ISPs were a factor? I’m on T-Mobile and I never had any problems with the site on my work’s network.

[WildTurk]

Yep. These pop up ads remind me of 1990s internet.  What a joke

 

[Caveira]

11 hours ago, WildTurk said:

Yep. These pop up ads remind me of 1990s internet.  What a joke

 

Follow the ad revenue?

Mobile vs desktop 

In the United States, 63% of online traffic came from smartphones and tablets in 2017.

[Husker_Du]

on mobile i get 2 ads

1 banner ad on bottom. 

1 video bottom right (which you can x out of)

 anyone have a different experience right now?

[Caveira]

1 hour ago, Husker_Du said:

on mobile i get 2 ads

1 banner ad on bottom. 

1 video bottom right (which you can x out of)

 anyone have a different experience right now?

There are still the banners on the bottom and the ad.  And often the banner that squares the whole screen.  There are several dozen posts across these or other threads like this.  You can x them but they come back.  They constantly come back.   They are in the way of the quote bar and follow you when you scroll and often interfere with typing.  
 

During this post.  Typing it they came back 5 times.  Sometimes when you click the x on the ad….. you actually click the ad which stinks.  The  experience is bad.  I believe it’s been documented a lot of times in these threads.     The user experience is not good.   I won’t make jokes there are plenty elsewhere.  

[bnwtwg]

It's November. Mobile is still broken with the bottom ad blocking the Tap-A-Talk toggle.

Desktop is still a mess as well. Load times are a disaster (see the basic browser dev console screenshot below for the thousands of reasons), multiple tabs is a death wish. Might be worth investing in a fractional product manager who knows what they are doing. While I fully support every person migrating to Brave or similar, expecting people to use a different browser just to use a forum is... not ideal.

 

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, bnwtwg said:

It's November. Mobile is still broken with the bottom ad blocking the Tap-A-Talk toggle.

Desktop is still a mess as well. Load times are a disaster (see the basic browser dev console screenshot below for the thousands of reasons), multiple tabs is a death wish. Might be worth investing in a fractional product manager who knows what they are doing. While I fully support every person migrating to Brave or similar, expecting people to use a different browser just to use a forum is... not ideal.

 

Its a mess.  I have times of typing up a post and then lose everything with a border pop up.  You can't even type a message without having to stop and scroll away from the pop ups.  Emojis are a mess to use.  @MPhillips says @Husker_Du doesn't care.  Its apparent he doesn't.  

[MPhillips]

2 minutes ago, ionel said:

@MPhillips says @Husker_Du doesn't care.  Its apparent he doesn't.  

 

On 9/10/2024 at 6:27 PM, Husker_Du said:

THAT's IT. and that's the way it's staying.

[ionel]

4 minutes ago, MPhillips said:

 

Shillie & Shaggie on the same page.

How's the new used car running? 

[Idaho]

Today's commits names  to the right are epic....