kid of one of STW’s owners
Well, they do have the same surname... 🤔
Sure that it will be sorted for everyone soon.
Very good!
<p>Working for me! (and it's not often I get to say that)</p>
^^^^ Ha, working you say!?
<p><p>Yup, working just fine.</p></p><p></p><p>The classifieds that is, not this random code nonsense.</p>
<p>Working for me! (and it’s not often I get to say that)</p>
How on earth do those tags appear when you're just typing a reply without quoting or anything? I don't think I've seen that happen with anyone else.
Well going against the grain here, I think its an improvement over the old system!
Sure its not perfect (and they have said it is WIP) but I had success quickly selling my Cotic via the new Singletrack system, whereas eBay was rife with tyrekickers and silly offers...
If you can’t see any ads try disabling your ad blocker.
Message I get from the classifieds. No I won't disable my ad blocker, last time I done that I was bombarded with dodgy pop ups and porn ads. Don't trust this site to view it in the office with no ad blocker.
Porn ads you say? You do realise these targeted ads are based on your browsing history don't you? I obviously only see ads for basket weaving supplies, jigsaw puzzles, and train spotting guides. 😉
I don't browse porn at work. Well, not since political correctness went mad anyways...
Blank for me too. I subscribe but I'm not turning my adblocker off just for this site to function as whenever I get signed out if then becomes slow and getting to the log in screen is a pain.
So no classifieds browsing for me!
Scotroutes - I have no idea, its something to do with the browser at work, it's Chrome but running via Browsium Catalyst which selects between it and IE depending what we are doing. I have raised the issue but had no response.
Interesting, it would seem adblock is the issue, we have ad blocking at work as well but it's not giving issues.
Okay so I disabled adblock. First issue was an unresponsive script that completely bored the page. Once that was stopped it loaded fine with no other ads..
Fix the script issue already, that was happening months ago! Otherwise classifieds look fine.
whenever I get signed out if then becomes slow and getting to the log in screen is a pain.
It’s like a little adventure every time.
Can you click the login link before the GDPR dialog sticks a layer over it?
Will the ad scripts make the browser keel over before the login button even appears?
At this point I was going to post a Banzai “place bets now” gif but apparently the forum won’t let me paste a URL 🙄
Frankly it’s a joke. Let’s break something that’s not broken and leave the already broken stuff...just because we ‘think’ we can earn money from it
The beauty of STW classifieds was it’s simplicity and it’s uniqueness
Just this. It was like walking through a bike jumble sale rather than going into Argos (for bikes).
I've cancelled my P it's a joke using this site these days since the site improvements. I rarely read the mag just got the P to browse a bit easier (that went well) and give some money for the site
If I have to disable my ad blocker to use the classifieds then that's the final nail in the coffin for me. I hope this is just a technical error that will be fixed on Monday.
I'm sure the classifieds will be developed over time into something we can all be happy with. Give it time.
I can't see any new posts, just the same ones that were posted days ago?
Have you scrolled down passed the pink fs bike, the skoda etc to get to the new ads? The paid ads show first with a very subtle blue shade
I quite like the new classified ads and understand STW needed to monetise the site in another way, rather than rely solely on ads and subscriptions.
They’ve been sitting on a gold mine for a while, seeing as searching for almost anything via google (car advice, home DIY, hot air ballooning etc) inevitably leads back to the STW forums. The classified section alone has had 375k topics started, across almost 5k pages. So fair play, it’s their site, and they’re trying.
That said, what I don’t like is their recent 100% increase in price for a 30 day listing. From £5 (reasonable) to £9 is a bit much, too soon. In my book it’s still in its infancy and £9 is a bit rich for a new ‘product’ that needs some serious tweaking before it justifies that. The UX and dev of the section needs some cleaning up (ads jumping around on page reload, etc) before they shoud start upping prices!
I'd have thought that the old links might have been removed by now. It must be very confusing for new/infrequent users.
Please fix it!
I thought the old one was the probably the best UK classified ads page, plus it was fair for all - free, quick and easy to skim read, no bumping (so I don't know how p-jay's bumping worked because they removed that ability many years ago).
The new one is a little bit turd, I don't even bother with it now even though I'm looking for some kit. Maybe things could have been done differently - make buying free, but to sell you have to pay a tiny fee or be a member.
Even days or weeks when I didn't have time to read the rest of the forum I would still flick through the ads and typically get sucked into reading more overview posts than I had planned to, now I pop in here maybe once a week at most.
I want everything perfect, immediately and free!!
22 FS posts today.
Pretty good going.
Love a good stat there Drac.... Is that up or down for your average Sunday? Given the old ones are turned off it's probably to be expected.
But I might be missing the obvious but when I go to look at them I don't see any ads in the main page, I click a catgagory and see nothing except the tiny list in a column on the right after the crap ADVERTS that I pay to not see. So what am I missing?
Average. Yes old ones are off but it appears people are using the new one just as much.
Not sure Mike from what I gather add blockers seem to block out the classified posts.
it appears people are using the new one just as much
To be fair, that stat only reflects seller traffic. Would be interesting to know what the buyer traffic looks like.
Good point but selling depends on items and the prices too but it's a big help if people can actually see the posts of course.
To be fair, that stat only reflects seller traffic. Would be interesting to know what the buyer traffic looks like.
This.
It'll be interesting to see what the usage is like in a month.
I'd be pretty miffed off if id paid for a priority posting with a pale blue background that nobody can see. Are you going to offer refunds ?
They have no idea if 22 ads is good or bad to be honest. No way of nowing how many people have stopped posting as a consequence. What’s clear is there is no back peddling. STW see classifieds as an income stream....long term we will see if it actually generates a revenue given the paid ads have not grown this weekend...
Not sure Mike from what I gather add blockers seem to block out the classified posts.
I assume the team found that in the testing.... as usual
What is just as frustrating is STW seem to have found a way to bypass the ad blockers and send ads to "P" users while blocking the ones from actual users...
It's not just ad blockers, doesn't show any content in some browsers too. I'm getting a very different visitor experience depending on the device and the browser.
I assume the team found that in the testing…. as usual
It never appeared in the tetsing I know that much many other bugs did, I don't think there were any reports either while it ran alongside the old one.
That might be a clue after the main forum update that some more imagination is required in the testing process.
I only want someone to buy my Pike 🙁
So it's now more broken?
When I looked a couple of days ago I could see the ads with my adblocker on. I've just been to have a looks at those Pikes and I can't see any of the ads. I'm not turning my adblocker off for anyone.
Doesn't work for me at all with Firefox. If I have blockers on using Chrome, I don't see any adverts at all - just the search form and then pages 1>whatever shortlink boxes.
I thought I'd try an ad to see what the process was like - luckily I chose a free ad 'cause I'd be p*ssed if I paid for something that's clearly not working. Zero interest anyway over the two days it was on the front page, so it'll be back to the other usual suspects for any buying or selling for me - shame, but it's STW Towers perogative so good luck to them.
Was looking for a road chainset. Search brought up 4 chainsets, none of them for road bikes. There use to be loads for sale in the old classified, so either I can't now find them, or no one is using it anymore.
This thread will be closed if it's used for stealth ads.
And cue to morons trying to get the thread closed!
Ironically more people posting on this thread this evening than listing items in the classifieds! Where as the food old days Sunday was great day for listing kit!
And cue to morons trying to get the thread closed!
Better than a load of moaning cockbags so set in their ways that they can't accept change and throw their toys out of their prams instead.
