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A bit OT but as the mods (and techies?) are here - it's working on FireFox again, thanks.

Having lost my "P" I now cannot use the site on a mobile device as it is completely unusable

I am not sure what devices you are using but Opera Mini set to 'single column view' is by far the best way to view this site. Adverts are non existent

Cougs - I doubt that. But don't waste your valuable time. It's not important.

[quote=surroundedbyhills ]First of I like the site so thanks to STW Staffers etc...
Buuuut:-
1 I get annoyed that the last thing to load is the Log in button so I get the ads first. The avoidance of ads is why i pay my subscriptionThe "Subscribe" button comes up early. Click that and then you'll see a login box (prefilled).

Or keep logged in.

But you are logged out occasionally (see various threads on this).

Well just to see how things were I opened singletrackworld.com forum.

Up comes private banking, okay, just wait a minute, let it settle then close. Okay. Oh **** bang here comes Tudor, screen hijacked only way out is to shut down the window. It's almost like you [i]want[/i] me to **** off.

In my deleted post (I mentioned the unmentionable) I stated I was a print subscriber for 4 or 5 years so my choice of 'abandoning' the P was because it wasn't worth it for me (and I'm not a long time 'freeloader' just bitching). Never used the premier content and only download a couple of the mags in all that time.

I've stopped visiting on my phone and had it with the iPad now. So it's either flounce (or the unmentionables) for me I'm afraid.

I don't mind the ads (usually). But the full screen ones are a little bit ewwwww....

I know, I could subscribe. But I don't actually like the mag. No offence, I don't like any of the others either. Of any genre. Especially the running mags. Don't get me started on Cycling Weekly.

This is my entry for most useless post of the day. I can sense a long day at work, whinging, complaining and generally being joyfully miserable.

I never read the mag. I subscribe to support the forum.

Arrghhh, just opened this on the laptop to find the ads covering the left third of the page, and it's totally unusable as a web page even on a 17" screen. I had to re-load the page to remove. This isn't some kind of short lived pop up ad like you might get on a newspaper site, this is a complete balls up of the forum.

I never read the mag. I subscribe to support the forum.

Which is a good thing to do. But I'm basically not that 'good' a person.

I prefer to have 50% of my screen as an advert(mainly Tripsters and Rosetta Stone ads) to support the forum.

100% is a bit much, and it's a terrible chore to drag my finger across to the top right of my ipad. Can we not stick it the 'X' somewhere central. My calories are precious.

Oooh, that top banner ad reminds me. Need to book a dentist appointment.

Arrghhh, just opened this on the laptop to find the ads covering the left third of the page

dragon - Member
Arrghhh, just opened this on the laptop to find the ads covering the left third of the page, and it's totally unusable as a web page even on a 17" screen

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I reloaded it about 10 times to see what all the fuss was about. No pop ups just some ads, yes it's a lot of ads but it's still perfectly usable (on a 17" laptop or my mobile when I need to login again which is about once a month)

lol @ that pic. The forum content is easily less than 50% of the screen real estate (sorry for terminology). I would have thought that content first, ads second would be the way to go. But then I don't pay the bills. Does seem odd.

yeah it is but unusable is a bit of an exaggeration.

The forum content is easily less than 50% of the screen real estate [b](sorry for terminology)[/b]

Easily fixed.

The forum content is easily less than 50% of the screen [s]real estate (sorry for terminology)[/s]

[quote=mikewsmith said]yeah it is but unusable is a bit of an exaggeration.

Well it's certainly crass from a web design point of view.

If that takes your machine more than 5 seconds to load you have problems with it!

You could avoid the delay by right-clicking on the links you wish to view and opening them in new tabs, then when you've chosen all the pages you wish to view, select the first tab containing the thread you wish to start with, which by that time will have loaded, and so on. When you've finished with it, hit back, and while THAT loads, select the next tab to read in the meantime. HTH

And of course the ads load first, or you'd just hit the stop button when the forum appeared 🙂

I click loads of adverts every few days to support the forum 🙂

Costs me £0/month.

(Hope it works)

Also, zoom in. HTHF 😉

[quote=nealglover said]I click loads of adverts every few days to support the forum
Costs me £0/month.
(Hope it works)

Repeated ad clicking from the same identified source may well have a detrimental effect on revenues. The ad supplier's aren't stupid and make efforts to detect bogus clicking.

Here's a crazy idea.
If the ads annoy so much on the sides and you believe the forum is unusable as it's less than a third of the screen how's about increasing the screen percentage so that all you see is the forum?
Or is that too much like hard work and you will have nothing to complain about?

It does Neal.
Thanks

It does Neal.
Thanks

Nice one.

Yorkshire premier membership tag please 😉

Mike problem is that left advert appears but over the left side of the forum itself making it unusable. Oddly it is inconsistent in whether it happens or not, suggesting dodgycode. That's in Chrome by the way.

I've no idea what testing STW do but there is something wrong.

Just spotted the other thread dealing with said issue.

Mark - Resident Grumpy
It's a rogue ad from a network screwing with the site CSS and stuff. We are trying to track it down now.

That glitch is down to a rogue ad messing up our website css. The trouble is finding it. See above for the levels of complexity around network ads.
I'm turning networks off one by one and seeing if I can find the network. If I can then I can start to home in on the ads from that network and find the one that's causing the issue. Unfortunately I'm also in London for the bikeshow this weekend so my availability for rogue ad hunting is going to be reduced until Monday when I'm back in the office with the tech guys.
As for testing.. you can't test ads from networks. You just have to trust them not to do this. There's hundreds of ad networks delivering ads from thousands of advertisers and agencies. When one doesn't behave it's a bit like finding a needle in a haystack.

I subscribe, don't have any of this hassle & a brilliant mag arrives every so often. Bonus. 😉
To be fair, I didn't know it had got so bad until I logged out & tried...
Bloomin heck. 😯