I'm setting up ads so that will likely be my fault. I've made some changes but do let mw know here or direct (preferable) if you are still seeing ads when you are logged in.
Update: Friday am
Andy is removing old forum data from the database. 30 million indiviual entries. It will take a day or so, but as they go things should start to improve performance wise for the reasons I've explained before.
Anthony is working on the supersticky problem for the recent posts page, which to most of us is the forum front page.
The problem here is that page is a generated page and not an actual static forum page. In other words each time you go to that page the forum runs a process to go through the other forums to get all the latest posts and merge them into that list. From your side iut looks like a forum page but it is different under the bonnet. That means it doesn't work in the same wauy as the Chat and Bike forum pages where sticky posts are kept and is th ereason why the current stickies are only at the top of those forums where they were created. It's a tricky one to code a fix for but Anthpony is working on something. At the same time we are fixing the small things slowly - Andy is aware that the cache/update bug hasn't gone away completely although it is functioning much better. So that's still a priority job too.
Each day, something gets fixed and we are getting better. Thanks for sticking with us.
The annoying ad for a free member like myself is when it takes over half my screen as I try to type anything
I've never ever looked at an ad to ever check out a product so I must be the ad companies worst customer
I'm here for the forum chat and may have become a full member however the forum is so quiet I will see if it picks up in the future
I can remember when if you started a thread and quickly got a century of replies what a good feeling
If you get 10 now you are doing really well
Here's hoping I've not annoyed anyone too much
This is easy to read
But this isn't so easy
The font and point size of most of the text on here isn't great for legibility at 100% zoom on an average laptop screen, imo.
The font size is 16, which is Google's recommended font size on screens.
The font and point size of most of the text on here isn't great for legibility at 100% zoom on an average laptop screen, imo.
I can't say as it's any different from any other website I use. It's larger if anything.
Have you tried moving your face closer to the screen? 😁
It is a similar size pointwise but it is unusually thin. It's not terrible, probably perfectly adequate, but at the lower end of readability
I've got a new fault (Chromebook) - everything has moved over by 1/3 of a page to the right.
It's not compressed it into that 2/3, there's 1/3 of a page now off to the right of my screen which is why
I am typing this in truncated lines because otherwise I can't see the end of my sentence. There's no way
for me to drive the mouse over to bring it back into view, no scroll bar, etc. It looks like there should be something in the left third, but it's just white space.
Ooh, I just found that if I keep typing some more became visible so now it's only 3/4 and 1/4, but the effect is the same. I can't read posts because I can't scroll over.
I nearly couldn't post this because only half the Add Reply button is on screen.
The font and point size of most of the text on here isn't great for legibility at 100% zoom on an average laptop screen, imo.
Time for glasses it comes to us all. 🙂
Chrome on a pixel 8
Getting a grey transparent box over the bottom quarter of the screen. I can see half an X in the corner but there's not enough on the screen to actually make it go away.
I don't know if it's down to this, but the rest of the thread is very slow to download and then becomes unresponsive
This has taken way too long to post, the whole place just hangs. Very slow on a laptop, ridiculous on my phone.
Are you bitcoin mining or something?
Please remove the Ad Blocker Blocker.
I already subscribe. I don't need to be nagged to subscribe. Just let me read the forum and get rid of the other annoying crap that I don't want.
Seriously... who implements a change like that at 11pm on a Friday night?
Running an adblocker and supporting the site via subscribing are not mutually exclusive things, as your message seems to suggest.
That's my point. I already subscribe, therefore let me run an adblocker.
FWIW I've currently disabled the adblocker on STW but now I'm gettings ads AND the pop up telling me to disable the adblocker. I'm having to type this on my phone
I don't block ads. I block trackers and 3rd party sites that I don't have a contract with. Especially those that track across sites that have popups saying "we respect your privacy".
I immediately navigate away from sites that block me from interacting with the site in the way I want.
I still sub, and the next one is due in a few days. So I do wonder if it was intentional that it was suggesting I sub? But if the site blocks me from using it, then oh well, was a fun 15 years or so. Learned a lot. 3 of my bikes are a direct result of lurking on STW.
That's my point. I already subscribe, therefore let me run an adblocker.
That was my point too. The screen message is suggesting that anyone using adblockers couldn't possibly be a subscriber. The truth is that there may be good reasons to run this kind of software even as a subscriber who isn't seeing display ads.
I’ve just had the Adblocker image flash up on my iPad using safari, In the cookie settings under vendor I have unticked the 350+ “legitimate interest” cookies.
A simple opt out all button would be better
I don't have an adblocker installed, never mind turned on, and got the nag. Perhaps everyone is, at first?
Getting the same adblocker black screen here. Subscriber. Adblocking disabled for this site (although should not need to). Two days after you took £25 subscription renewal out of my bank account. Crappy untested change?
I've just had 3 of those messages pop up one on top of the other, on a page with 11 adverts showing.
Also the forum is taking ages to load on my phone this evening, and when it does all but a few of the posts are blank. The posts are there but no writing in them. On this thread I can only see the last 4 posts.
Full subscriber here and no adblocker.
Worryingly the STW forums do seem, to me at least, to be getting v quiet. Lots fed up with forum issues over many months?
Hopefully, shortly, it will finally be sorted and most will, over time, return 🤞
ill see your adblocker message and raise you. also a subscriber, logged in, just whitelisted the site (altho i shouldnt need to) and still get them. having to use a different browser to post.
I am getting the same as sadexpunk.
subscriber running Pi-hole - with https://singletrackworld.com/ whitelisted.
There is no apparent difference between what I can see with Pi-hole on or disabled.
Adblocker pop-up here too. No Ad-blocker installed, just Firefox
I can see the Saracen ad behind the veil and the front cover photo popped up too.
This isn't encouraging new customers
Yep. I now can't use the site on my Chromebook, see image below. Paid up user, logged in, have whitelisted STW on uBlock Origin. It's not happening on my Android phone, at the moment 🤞
Worryingly the STW forums do seem, to me at least, to be getting v quiet. Lots fed up with forum issues over many months?
It's probably because it's pointless posting at the moment if you want an actual discussion.
Fine if you want to post a comment and walk away, but for me, replies and posts are taking up to 24 hours to even appear
Adblocker pop-up here too. No Ad-blocker installed, just Firefox
conversely, mine is unuseable on chrome, but im having to post this on firefox which is ok for me.
I know that the adverts are an important revenue stream, but I'm starting to get some that hijack the whole screen and 'pretend' to be system alerts telling you you have an issue - so untrue. I'm familiar enough not to get caught out but they're a pain none the less. Does STW have any say in the sort of stuff it advertises?
Slow, to the point of giving up.
Oh and the delay's back.
I'm also occasionally getting the Ad Blocker alert.
It appeared for me too but then went, we’ve reported it to tech. Had no slowdown though.
Should be fixed now.
Saturday am Update:
I unintentionally launched the adblocker detection tool last night. My fault entirtely for all that nonsense. Late night issue with me thinking I was testing the tool on our pre-production site and I lauched it by mistake before any of the settings were set up correctly.
If we do launch it, it will need to be off for full members AND free members. But right now I have no plans to launch it.
Work continues on deleting the data from the old forum. It has to be done carefully and in batches. There's 30 million entries in the database to get rid of.
All settings to ensure that full members don't see ads are in place as far as I can tell. If anyone is a full member and you see ads can you email me directly with a screenshot. What I need to see is that your member label says, 'Full member' AND there are ads in your viewport. If you are seeing ads and it says 'Free member' and you think you should be a full member then email subs@singletrackworld.com with that one and Heather and tech will look at your account on monday. For me, covering the weekend and setting up the ads I can deal with these specific issues.
Cheers
Mark
Thanks for the update
The forum is impossible to use today on my iPhone using Safari or Chrome.
It sort of loads but then freezes, then it may scroll and everything just disappears to a blank frozen screen with maybe a tiny bit of stuff at the top, but no way to interact with the page.
If I use the hyperlink tool in the tool bar to attach a hyperlink to some text, it displays correctly in the editor (blue, underlined text) but renders the hyperlink as standard text & then embeds the url as a preview, which makes a proper mess or your text. I'd assumed that the embedding feature was for stand alone urls pasted straight in.
How strange! Let me try again.
Scrap that then, false alarm. Although it did go screwy for me in another post. Perhaps it was a delay in the Edit updating.
Now a SUPPORT US banner down the left handside that blocks out most of the controls down that side. Does the pain never stop?
Here's another subs related one. I renewed this morning and the payment processed ok but the landing page displayed a zero top left and that was all. The bank says the payment went through.
I'm having issues with the entire forum page periodically going completely blank & white. I suspect that it's a Free Member issue and related to the adverts I mentioned earlier that take over the whole screen & pretend to be system alerts.
Sounds more and more likely that is is a Free Member issue. I will bring this up with the tech team.
Flickr direct linking was actually working from Friday until this morning despite Mark saying it couldn't and it was a Flickr problem.
Now it's not again.
I'm sure it must be something Flickr are doing not STW. 🤣
And it's back working again. 😀
