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I confess I'm a little giddy with excitement at what's coming next, it must be good
*Opens thread*
5 pop ups blocked.
Standard.
I have also had some strange wording floating over the screen - moves to quickly to read it but I think it is related to the buy the mag ad. black type, bigger than the forum font and italic. Floats around the opposite way to scrolling. On an android phone
Same as TJ I am getting floating subliminal messages to buy the mag on my android phone. Also my phone's auto correct spelling does not work on the forum but seems fine everywhere else.
Woohoo it's a new day so I get to hear about mag 118 again. If only I didn't already have it BECAUSE I SUBSCRIBE
If only I didn’t already have it BECAUSE I SUBSCRIBE
If only there was a way that they could know who was a subscriber...
I have also had some strange wording floating over the screen – moves to quickly to read it but I think it is related to the buy the mag ad. black type, bigger than the forum font and italic. Floats around the opposite way to scrolling. On an android phone
i also get this. too fast for me to read tho, goes from top to bottom at the speed of sound........
Are you suggesting that they need to slow it down?
That "floating text" is what becomes the pop-up.
Fancy, eh?
That floating text shite might just be what reminds (forces) me to phone in and cancel my (at least print) subscription. I’ve been meaning to do it for 6 months now.
thanks, keep up the good work.
Too fast on my phone, just whizzes past.
Cancelled my auto renew (via email) a couple of weeks ago. If things have improved when its due I may resubscribe but at the moment I'm not too happy paying for this
Well the thread on the pop ups and redirects gained a lot of conversation, and hit/views, so obviously it’s a successful view grabber. Repaper the same ethos into the site but this time use pop ups to promote the mag and generate the same conversation streams to gain more views and consternation.. and gain more views and posts and keep the traffic flowing into the site.
Amazing that this has gotten past 2007.
Annoying viewers/posters is the new model.
It's gone!
Put something irritating live, watch for complaints. Over 100, remove it, move on to next .. 🙂
no its back and is really bloody annoying.
nah! it's still there
still curious about the browser hijack ads though. I rarely see them, not seen one for months (like 6+ months), even on Android phone which has none of the browser add-ons that improve the use of the internet. I get more from viewing the BBC news webby from outside UK.
I tried ignoring the pop up ad but not it's really starting to grate in addition to it being so goddarn slow.
Moreover is this an issue for anyone else - staying logged in once you enter your username and password and click remember me? I find myself having to log in several times if using my iphone.
Still struggling to figure how to attach pics.. I've tried using the insert/edit image icon but it does not work.
Pics? Just read the help/how to pages - oh wait...
You still basically need the file hosted elsewhere and a link/address then ends in .jpeg .bmp or .png
If you have that paste the link in the box here or in the first box of post image
eg
https:// ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experience/cps/624/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/ images/2018/4/13/f24152cb-ffe5-4766-861f-281bfd49b698.jpg Without the spaces obviously
and its sooooooooo slow this morning
glacial
You can just right-click, Copy image, paste it (on a pc anyway)
heap of shit, utter heap of shit
Put something irritating live, watch for complaints. Over 100, remove it, move on to next
"Move fast and break things" is the motto isn't it?
Half way there....
if the forum gets any slower i will be able to subscribe and get it posted to me without any loss of functionality
STW are very generous in allowing criticism of themselves
mike/dez b - I've tried both methods (after reading the help section several times). I tried it from flickr and imgur.I must be be doing something wrong. thanks though,.
Do you get a link like the one at the end of my post?
Edit past the link your trying to use and the page it's coming from
Thanks mike got it now for some reason on the flickr I cannot get any .jpeg .bmp or .png extension and on imgur I manged to find the direct link address which works.
if the forum gets any slower i will be able to subscribe and get it posted to me without any loss of functionality
Given your relative proximity to Todmorden I'd had thought that it was already quicker to get the forum posted out to you. Much slower and hand delivered to Australia will be a distinct rival to the more conventional means of distributing online fora
@tuskloosa - if you use the insert image dialog I've found that you also need to click in the "Image description " field, this forces the code to work out the image size - you'll see the two boxes below being populated automagically. Without doing this it sets the image size to be be zero by zero pixels, which isn't useful!
Its fantastic that the IT guys are celebrating in this weeks FGF
Well done lads..... Well done.....
🙁
I dont want to slag off two people [ i assume its a very tall order for them to do this] but i am amazed anyone is so pleased with the forum they have decided to reward them.....possibly hoping they get better at fixing things if they are pissed 😉
At least one of them has the common sense to hide his face.
Mostly, I'm just surprised that they're old enough to drink beer.
I guess the IT fellas have been putting a lot of work in to add new "features". Bless em. Hopefully the beers will serve as a bribe to get back the missing useful stuff. 🙂
I hope the beer doesn't come up as frequently as the buy the mag pop up
I got logged out the other morning on my phone.
Holy cheese and sprinkles i can see why people who arnt premier are complaining so much. Its almost unusable once you get a thread with pictures.
Personally I think the IT bods have earned a rest. Although, I assumed they were off this week.
Personally I think the IT bods have earned a rest. Although, I assumed they were off this week.
Nah, the jerky floaty pop up is a school holiday project
My contribution for the day....
Using https://singletrackworld.com/forum /"> https://web.archive.org/web/20170615000000*/https://singletrackworld.com/forum/
I looked at the post count from this time last year - from 28th March 2017 to 28th April 2017 we collectively averaged 748 daily posts on the bike forum and 974 daily posts on the chat forum. It will be interesting to see what we collectively post in the coming days on average. Sadly you can't tell too easily on the chat forum because the post count seems to be broken at the moment (currently reading 175992, give or take the same as the topic count) and to be fair Trump and Brexit was keeping everyone very excited so the post count in chat was high. But the current bike forum tally is at 37352219. By 1400 on 20th April 2018 it should be around 3,740,500 if the current forum 'improvements' have not had a negative effect. Good weather ahead so lots of folk should be thinking about riding and have lots to say so plenty of chance user involvement being up on last year......
When are you/the IT nods going to get rid of that chuffing annoying scrolling POC that clutters the screen?
If they’re having a beer on STW then clearly the directive comes from the Editors in Cheif that it’s an acceptable POS.
That I don’t what the plan is.
Did you read the article? Someone bought them a beer not STW.
#Fakebrews
Hahaha!
OK so I have been stupid enough to sign up as a life member but this is turning into a farce its slower than Brian Snail and with all the functionality of a toddlers brain!
if the forum gets any slower i will be able to subscribe and get it posted to me without any loss of functionality
Sums it up for me
Oh BTW that took over a minute from the time I hit submit till it appeared
I'm going to time how long submitting this takes....
... 12 seconds.
ok me too- 8 seconds looks like the IT guys being pissed has helped 😉
the edit took 17 seconds