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Filled in the error report. When I was doing it, it was deja vu, definitely have done before.
Still got the 1 message icon showing 🙁
please fix it. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASSSSSSSEEEEE!!!!! I beg on bended knees. Pretty please. Pretty please with sugar on. PRITTY please with a ice gem. PLEEEEEEASE GET RID OF THE THING!
There. Fixed it for you.
Excellent! Says 2 now, just what I wanted 😆
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Oh, its 1 again 😥
Oooh, now I've been shopping for coffee! I don't drink the muck!
WTF indeed!
Nothing? No explanation as to how 12 items of £100 value have randomly appeared in my shopping basket?
Adverts back on my mobile..... .
Mine too, logged in phone, android
Here too, logged in on Firefox on a laptop.
And here, Edge on a PC
**edit** and, blimey, there's a lot of 'em, in't there?
Sorry about the ads there.
We are about to activate a major change in the way ads get served on the site by partnering with a new company called Ezoic. They use AI and machine learning to optimise ad display based on user personalisation. All a fancy way of saying if you don't click an ad in a particular position it guides where ads will appear for you in the future.
To make this work we have had to create a way for the Ezoic system to recognise that you are Full Members so they don't show you any ads at all. We've done that but we have to get the complicated logic right... lots of 'If user is X AND Y or Z then show no ads". I reckon that 20 minutes ago we got that logic wrong. We are fixing it now.
Message deleted after reading Mark's post.
Keeping you updated here. We have turned off the system until we can work out why the member recognition logic isn't working properly. Ads should now be gone.
While you are here - the menu link bar at the top of the forum is messed up, there's no margin or padding between each item so you have "OverviewBike ForumChat ForumMembers ForumNews ForumHelp"
Can you send a screenshot to the tech guys via the help link bottom left?
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While you are here – the menu link bar at the top of the forum is messed up, there’s no margin or padding between each item so you have “OverviewBike ForumChat ForumMembers ForumNews ForumHelp”
Weird. It looks fine for me. I don't have Drac's ipad though....just Chrome on a Win laptop & on my Pixel 4a.
The new ad system is on right now. It's in learning mode so so you may see ads in odd places or even blank spaces. Bear with us it should sort itself out over time.
Have done Mark. Looks like this:
The links still work, they just aren't very pretty!
Can you report that on the help link? Then let us know what browser you are using etc.
Have done, 😉
Nothing? No explanation as to how 12 items of £100 value have randomly appeared in my shopping basket?
Have you reported it to the Tech guys? Hoping someone stumbles across your post isn’t going to get a a quick response.
Hoping someone stumbles across your post isn’t going to get a a quick response
No but nor will reporting it and maybe Dez feels better for sharing his angst. At least he got some sort of response
Is there anything my end that could be preventing me from seeing the classifieds?
Using chrome on an iPhone. No adblockers or anything fancy.
Have you reported it to the Tech guys? Hoping someone stumbles across your post isn’t going to get a a quick response.
I email, I error report and when I get no response I post in the forum.
Now it comes to £100 being shopped by some unknown means, you would've thought that would deserve an explanation or even a ****ing acknowledgment, but no. So my sub I've had for about 20 years is cancelled. Not something I want to support any longer.
@Drac - my last two emails to tech@ received no response. I'm not denying that they might be overwhelmed but your expectation of that being the best route might need recalibrated.
Thanks for answering my question Dez it allows me to feedback if I know what steps you have taken so far. I can now see about raising your issue some more.
It’s still a better route than posting on the forum alone, the tech boys tend not to look at the forum much. It would the equivalent of me driving around on my days off patching folk up.
Having raised a bug - see a few posts above - I notice that the reporting page has been updated a bit. It should be possible that you get an automated email to say that the report has been received - other similar (to the user) systems do so. It would help assuage fears that the report hasn't just disappeared into a black hole.
I'm getting massive, page sized ads even when I'm logged in (which I have to keep doing).
@john_l they switched to a new ad server. It caused an issue where some full members revived ads, it fixed itself for most. However, not all others had to clear the STW cookie. Try the tool on here.
https://singletrackworld.com/login-problems/
I'm getting ads on my Pixel4a and MS Edge. Laptop with Windows 10 and Edge is fine.
Got adds on iPad Pro & iPhone xs (safari iOS 14.7.1) whenever I return to stw after browsing another open tab, cleared cookies etc but makes no difference. And the grey/black delineation of thread posts sometimes blend into one colour.
It astonishes me that people can have been members for 20 years and still expect personal responses from a tech team of two people. Can you imagine how much work that would generate if there were a site-wide bug?
Should stuff appearing in your shopping cart merit a response? Probably.
Why didn't you get a response? Maybe they're too busy with the work Mark's been talking about for the last two pages. Maybe they don't know. Would "we don't know" have made you feel validated or would it have you hitting the forum complaining about that?
Why did it happen? I could speculate but it likely won't help you. It wouldn't have been intentional if that's what you're insinuating.
Does it really matter? If it'd checked out then that would be a different story, but it was just a random glitch. It's not like you wouldn't have and indeed didn't spot it. I've had it happen to me on other sites a few times over the years, ended up with someone else's cart. I hit delete, changed my password just in case though that was probably unnecessary, and got on with my life.
Cougar really drunk the Kool-Aid when he was a moderator eh? 😘
Should stuff appearing in your shopping cart merit a response? Probably
Nah, definitely. Along with an apology. I’m a free member, so always feel content with the way things are. However, whenever anyone complains or moans about anything they get short shrift and a “what do you expect?, you should do this/that or go away” response.
I seem to be getting ads every time I come back to the browser after doing something else on my iPad - latest Safari on latest iOS so I know, fringe case that no one could predict anyone would use so probably not tested and I should be using chrome on Android or something but it’s getting annoying. The in-line ads I can sort of ignore (when they don’t lock up the browser) in a Three Billboards sort of way as suggested by Mark, but the full-page ones that I have to click on to get past are more like a mugger blocking my way until I cough up my data. Unfortunately just renewed my sub otherwise I’d be leaving as well.
Pile of ****. get it together please.
Getting a whole bunch of adverts, but guess you know that by now.
That said, I am after some new running shoes so fair play on the algorithms.
Incontinence pads.
Sex toys.
Viagra.
Audi.
(Just seeing if I can influence people's targeted ads)
I created an entire thread called 'England – it really is another country' in answer4 to the hateful one, given i was born there and about the places we lived up until I was 6.
Hit submit, and the entire thing vanished.
Obviously this was because it was named the same, but still a bit sad to have it vanish completely so I couldnt adjust the title.
Ads for me this morning - all over the ****ing place! 🤬🤬