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2ould it be more profitable/honest/practical for user browsing to donate a buck a month on patron than for the pages to be taken over by ads
 
I love that the shape-shifting banners are gone now!
 
It’s better. But the site still has aids.
2ould it be more profitable/honest/practical for user browsing to donate a buck a month on patron than for the pages to be taken over by ads
Tried that route before. Doesn't work and I'm tired of having to beg/drop $100's every month out of my pocket to keep this place afloat. The solution is to try new ad networks and weed out the bad ones. People no matter what I do are going to bitch about it, even if they've been warned that testing is going on and nothing is permanent.
 
Tried that route before. Doesn't work and I'm tired of having to beg/drop $100's every month out of my pocket to keep this place afloat. The solution is to try new ad networks and weed out the bad ones. People no matter what I do are going to bitch about it, even if they've been warned that testing is going on and nothing is permanent.

Someone mentioned Discord in S34...I don't know the first thing about Discord, but would it be possible to do a Patreon where the reward is access to a Discord channel? I'd sign up for $3/month at least, maybe a little more (with or without the Discord part). I'd prefer that to my current method of making a random $20 donation once or twice a year. Just my two cents.


Also, the problem I was having with ads is fixed (on PC).
 
Just had one that went around the whole edge of the screen (car driving around it) before shrinking to the normal (still annoying) bottom part of the screen.
 
Just had one that went around the whole edge of the screen (car driving around it) before shrinking to the normal (still annoying) bottom part of the screen.

Just to add to this, it sometimes wont allow me to keep browsing until I hit the X on the ad. Not huge but definitely a little more intrusive
 
Just to add to this, it sometimes wont allow me to keep browsing until I hit the X on the ad. Not huge but definitely a little more intrusive

These new ads are brutal. I've experienced the above on mobile. Also, some ads get in the way of the "post reply" button. Sometimes it pushes the text into the background so you have to click the screen to begin to type again.

On Desktop I've had a problem with banner ads taking a slightly slower time to load and when they do they throw the formatting off pushing the screen down.

The ads are very much an annoyance at this point.
 
This website is unusable on mobile. I cannot stay on with either my iPhone or iPad.
 
Tried that route before. Doesn't work and I'm tired of having to beg/drop $100's every month out of my pocket to keep this place afloat. The solution is to try new ad networks and weed out the bad ones. People no matter what I do are going to bitch about it, even if they've been warned that testing is going on and nothing is permanent.
Sending you a PM.
 
Working on a new set of ad networks. Don't lose your collective shit over them. Only temporary.
 
This might be a dumb question, but is there a different way to load the ads into the XenForo template or to reserve the space for all ad dimensions when each page first loads? Every time I load a page, all of the links/buttons move down 2-4 times as the various ads load. I don't know how many times I've tried to click or touch a link/button and it just moves on me. I know this is a problem on lots of sites (hello ESPN) but I'm hoping XenForo has a solution.
 
This might be a dumb question, but is there a different way to load the ads into the XenForo template or to reserve the space for all ad dimensions when each page first loads? Every time I load a page, all of the links/buttons move down 2-4 times as the various ads load. I don't know how many times I've tried to click or touch a link/button and it just moves on me. I know this is a problem on lots of sites (hello ESPN) but I'm hoping XenForo has a solution.
I'll see what I can do.
 
Blasted a beer commercial while at work when it popped on in a tab I wasn't currently using.

Any way to turn ad sound off permanently?
 
Blasted a beer commercial while at work when it popped on in a tab I wasn't currently using.

Any way to turn ad sound off permanently?
The problem is the ads refreshing and keeping tabs open. The longer you're on one page the lower in quality the ads get. I know on firefox you can mute a tab by right clicking on it and I've also passed your post onto our ad network to see if they can fix the issue.
 

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