New Ads

[Husker_Du]

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.

[Wrestleknownothing]

Thank you, @Husker_Du

As for me, the ads are so prevelant that I cannot post using one of my phones.  After clearing my cookies the site wants to know if I want to use Chrome or Tapatalk. But the choice buttons are covered by an ad so that they are not accessible. And the site is not accessible until I make a choice.

Happy to give @BobDole some time to tweak.

Edited August 28 by Wrestleknownothing

[MadMardigain]

I maybe able to deal with the in thread ads, but getting a new mini pop up video every time I change the page I’m on is a little overkill.  Starting to feel like the Flo when I’m trying to watch action during a live event.  

[Caveira]

I cannot even add the pics I added yesterday in the non wrestling topics section…. The thread about ads being out of control.  Which has pics I’ll describe below.   Someone changed that apparently too…….   because they are now to big.   Same single screen photos from my iPhone.  
 

they consume the screen.  They follow your scrolling and annoyingly get clicked way too much.   It’s hard to click quote or respond because they are constantly in the way.   I can barely see what I’m typing sometimes because it’s u see the darn ads.   
 

when you close them the re open.   One literally spreads a red square or blue banner across all of the outline of the screen.   It’s like the ads are from a used car dealership.   They’re awful and will ruin the traffic on this site.  

Edited August 28 by Caveira

[Caveira]

The new max size is 435 kB which seems tiny…. The ads are larger  had to make that joke lol 

[Paul158]

Right now there are 3 ads on the screen and if I scroll 1 inch 3 more pop up. Its like a computer game trying to dodge the ads. But  i don't get any points.

[PortaJohn]

I've got 

-Mint Mobile

-VRBO

-Big Dreams Begin With Fafsa

-Foreverspin "Made in Canada"

-Tickets for Korn (got to stretch for that concert.  Haven't moshed it up 20 years)

 

[BobDole]

#1 This is Willie's site, I am a public servant, just doing what the man wants

#2 Ads pay the bills

#3 If some functionality is being blocked as some are saying, please respond with what the issue is in as much detail as possible. Please include what browser(Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc) and what device(laptop, desktop, iPhone aka losers, Android, etc). That will help in seeing the issues and passing them along.

I can already tell the popup in the lower right is causing some issues. On mobile devices you should be able to scroll down to get past the ad to input a reply, but I only see that on my fantastic Android phone. Sorry guys, in Heaven we only use Androids.

If you can't get screenshots added to the topic, email them to me at intermat.forum@gmail.com.

[nhs67]

I got four ads and I can't click the react button.

A slight scroll fixes it.

I have attempted to click and had an ad pop up on me twice today that redirected me.

I can deal with being annoyed if it means we get our forum still.

[Caveira]

There are screen shots in the non topic forum for the last two days     Link below .   There seems to be a 435k cap on the size of attachment screen shots now…. Seems like that was changed today or yesterday.

im in sales.   I’m in tech.   I know $ is needed to pay the bills.   These are so invasive you will lose posters in droves.     If you lose posters in droves you lose the ad traffic…..  

.   

[BobDole]

5 minutes ago, Caveira said:

There are screen shots in the non topic forum for the last two days     Link below .   There seems to be a 435k cap on the size of attachment screen shots now…. Seems like that was changed today or yesterday.

im in sales.   I’m in tech.   I know $ is needed to pay the bills.   These are so invasive you will lose posters in droves.     If you lose posters in droves you lose the ad traffic…..  

.   

There isn't a cap on your screenshot limit, you reached the max for the site. Maybe you should limit the amount of pictures you have of drag queens and you won't use the space up so quickly.

[Eagle26]

Just in case anyone is interested in trying… I have the app “AdBlock Pro” on my phone and iPad and I don’t get a single advertisement on this site

[Caveira]

1 hour ago, BobDole said:

There isn't a cap on your screenshot limit, you reached the max for the site. Maybe you should limit the amount of pictures you have of drag queens and you won't use the space up so quickly.

We should keep politics in the non wrestling forum possibly.   But thanks for the info.   The error message does say you can’t post a pic over 435 kB

[1032004]

8 hours ago, Eagle26 said:

Just in case anyone is interested in trying… I have the app “AdBlock Pro” on my phone and iPad and I don’t get a single advertisement on this site

Apparently I already had one downloaded but it wasn’t on.  Turned it on and seems to have stopped them

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

Can we just get rid of the big video ads that follow you as you scroll?  I'm fine with the static ads but the video ads are especially annoying.

[BobDole]

9 hours ago, Caveira said:

We should keep politics in the non wrestling forum possibly.   But thanks for the info.   The error message does say you can’t post a pic over 435 kB

You have used all but 435kb of your allotted upload space. Of your 60ish pictures, 15 of them are of drag queens or transwomen. I think you need to lay off posting those pictures, just a suggestion.

[Hank]

visit the site on a computer rather than ur phone.  problem solved.

[Gus]

Yesterday, on my computer, the ads were abundant. Today, on my computer, the ads are back to normal. 

[MPhillips]

1 hour ago, Hank said:

visit the site on a computer rather than ur phone.  problem solved.

Nope...

[alex1fly]

iPhone, Safari. In-thread ads every 4 posts or so, pop up ads every time I change pages, header ads appear and disappear whenever I scroll down, footer ads do the same. Sometimes the header/footer ads will show up and then change to a new ad which is pretty jarring. 
 

in my view, static (non moving) ads are way less annoying than pop ups and disappearing/reappearing ones. Also ads with animation are pretty annoying too. 

[VakAttack]

Nothing on my laptop, but I have a pretty strong pop up blocker.

EDIT:  Like  @BobDole's ghost, I'm an Android user, so I haven't notice an issue in my brief sojourns on here with my phone.  I typically access from my computer.

Edited August 29 by VakAttack

[Hillbilly Jim]

17 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Thank you, @Husker_Du

As for me, the ads are so prevelant that I cannot post using one of my phones.  After clearing my cookies the site wants to know if I want to use Chrome or Tapatalk. But the choice buttons are covered by an ad so that they are not accessible. And the site is not accessible until I make a choice.

Happy to give @BobDole some time to tweak.

Same issue but Safari not Chrome....

[alex1fly]

Two more examples of ads interfering with basic functionality. Both are versions of “ads blocking reply button”. See screenshots. 

[alex1fly]

I think I’m going to leave the site for a while and check back in. I haven’t been this bombarded by ads since the days before ad blockers. This site is supposed to be fun dangit lol. Hope my couple of reports are helpful. 

Edited August 29 by alex1fly

[juniorvarsity]

I got an audio ad. Unsure where it came from. I did not click. It made me very angry. I likely accidently clicked something. But couldn't find it to stop it 

Edited August 30 by juniorvarsity
Likely user error added