Ads. I pay a subscription so that I don't have to see any

Agreed. That banner takes up more than a third of the screen on my Chromebook. It's proper in yer face.

[Mod] we’re sorry there’s some glitches and Tech are doing their best to rectify.

Ta!

I assumed hebtroco were now sponsoring the forum are they or is that an ad?

Are the two things mutually exclusive? 🙂

It links straight to their website. It's an ad.

I don't mind a banner for a small, reputable business tbh. It's the pop ups and the ones that load an extra page between clicking on a topic and accessing it that I pay to avoid.

It links straight to their website. It’s an ad........

clicked on it so many time whilst the pages loads up and its slow to do so

I just got an enormous mid-thread video try to load itself (and immediately be stuck buffering)

I've just hidden it like I did with the previous crc banner. I only want to see text or photos that people have posted.

I didn't know you could hide it! How?

blokeuptheroad
Full Member
I didn’t know you could hide it! How?

Not allowed to speak about it

This meeting/thread could have been an email

At least they are, presumably, paying for an advert now, rather than just using a/their 30 page thread.

How do i stop the constant pop ups on my iPhone? Even when logged in

Subscribe.

It'll not stop the fgf video pop up that's erm popped up

I don’t mind a banner for a small, reputable business

Like I said in the tread title...

It’ll not stop the fgf video pop up that’s erm popped up

It does if you select disable videos in your preferences.

I'm also getting this repeatedly

And I just had to type all these stupid image tags because the buttons have vanished again. This site a garbage fire.

I am really fond of the banner thing at the top loading and making all the threads on my phone jump just as I try to select one and end up on a thread i didn't want. Great.

So we get a good discount for Hebtroco now yes? Thats the benefit of my ad free subscription yes?

Hmm. I thought I did subscribe. I certainly used to.

“It’ll not stop the fgf video pop up that’s erm popped up

It does if you select disable videos in your preferences.”

Unfortunately disabling vids in preferences does not kill the pop up video. It reduces the number of times it pops up, but annoyingly it does not stop it.

It does if you select disable videos in your preferences.

Not always. Mostly I don't see them. Then sometimes I see them a lot. Then I see them if I refresh a page but not if I have gone straight from a link... all very odd. But I definitely disabled them in my settings.

As above I've ticked that option yet.....

Yesterday i was getting a pop up window advert for what can only be described as extreme Israeli propaganda. Kinda surprised when it can’t even be mentioned on the forum…

So...is hebcotro an advert of the new forum wponwor?

<Q>So…is hebcotro an advert of the new forum wponwor?</Q>

I don't know but I suddenly have an inexplicable urge to spend a weeks wages on a coat that makes me look like a giant toddler.

Unfortunately disabling vids in preferences does not kill the pop up video. It reduces the number of times it pops up, but annoyingly it does not stop it.

Very much this.
Seems to happen if you navigate away via a link in a thread and then return.

Tbh the forum seems to have been running shit for a good few weeks now, what once was a bit of a gag is turning into a major turn off. It’s getting to the stage where knowing it’ll hang up for ages, no access at all, your replies will be lost etc equate to don’t bother, it’s tedious, and that’s with a subscription.

Looks like the fancy editor has gone AWOL again too!

Not a premium user but entire forum now unusable on Android phone.

Threads cannot be clicked as video advert blocks page, not sure if it's just me. Ta

I don’t know but I suddenly have an inexplicable urge to spend a weeks wages on a coat

Humble brag.

"I don’t know but I suddenly have an inexplicable urge to spend a weeks wages on a coat that makes me look like a giant toddler."

Post on the politics threads for a bit, get the same effect for free! Worked for me, anyway.

I don't mind seeing ads but do they burn my data?

And if @iainc thinks the prices are silly then they really must be astronomical 😂

TBH I'm guessing that few in the biking world currently have much marketing spend available and that Mark would prefer to have at least some income. It's still an Ad though.

TBH I’m guessing that few in the biking world currently have much marketing spend available and that Mark would prefer to have at least some income. It’s still an Ad though.

Yeah that’s pretty much the answer he gave you the last time.

Yeah. I'm replying so Mark doesn't have to.

Don't worry, I'll not be charging for this service.

Yesterday i was getting a pop up window advert for what can only be described as extreme Israeli propaganda. Kinda surprised when it can’t even be mentioned on the forum

Iirc STW doesn’t choose what ads pop up, as its done via Google and Google will be looking at search history?

It is the only 'ad' that I see and only seems to be on the main forum page - so no real issues with it. However, I'm clearly thick, so a wee note like 'In partnership with...' or 'Sponsored by...' would help my slow thinking dull processing brain. Not a massive issue from me though (other than the prices, but I'm clearly not the intended market for the kit).

The idea that people are bothered that it's a small clothing company and not a large, industry-crushing bike company is madness to me. You don't want fancy trousers? Don't buy any.

In a period where the bike industry is really struggling I think some people seem to believe STW is immune from the pressures. If it doesn't earn money then it will disappear and we won't have a forum to moan on.

Hmm… might be time to buy a second pair…

If it doesn’t earn money then it will disappear and we won’t have a forum to moan on.

We could petition for a blokes only section on Mumsnet! 🙂

OK, so sponsor's adverts are excluded from the 'ad free' benefit of paid subscription, fair enough. Why though, do they have to be so large and intrusive? It's not too bad on a phone, but in the Chrome browser on a laptop it takes up a huge chunk of screen space and makes accessing the stuff we come here for just a little more tedious. I've just done a screenshot to show that, but it seems the photo upload facility is kaput. Just making it a little more subtle and not having it dominate the screen seems a reasonable thing to expect imo.

Edit.  Seems the photo upload thingy has been restored - thanks.  This is the home screen on my laptop:

https://youtu.be/-8QTPMj63Tw?si=wu8RAoIbnW12pwki

Embedded vids don't work?

OK, so sponsor’s adverts are excluded from the ‘ad free’ benefit of paid subscription, fair enough. Why though, do they have to be so large and intrusive? It’s not too bad on a phone, but in the Chrome browser on a laptop it takes up a huge chunk of screen space and makes accessing the stuff we come here for just a little more tedious. I’ve just done a screenshot to show that, but it seems the photo upload facility is kaput. Just making it a little more subtle and not having it dominate the screen seems a reasonable thing to expect imo.

Looks like that on mine too but there's a simple solution: just scroll down a bit...

A little twitch of your mouse wheel and Bob's your uncle.

I would say that that is an example of what ads should be like, Simple banner, no animation, doesn't get in the way too much, and purposefully chosen and placed there by those that run the site.

It's the ads that trigger epilepsy and take over the entire browser to the point I can see or concentrate on the actual content that cheese me off.

Looks like that on mine too but there’s a simple solution: just scroll down a bit…

Thanks for that. So same technique as on a REACH local news site? Got it.

Hmm… might be time to buy a second pair…

They have a sale on knives too, which I’m trying to resist. Be good for a croissant.

Better be quick Drac.

Do we get a discount? 😀