What joy is this? Every mins I get a popup forcing m to click to read more.

Oh yes. At first I thought it was to protect my sensitivities
Freeloader thing?
It stops you from submitting posts, click to read more and your carefully-crafted partial response disappears

I’m getting that too. I’ve got no problem with ads but this doesn’t even seem to be an ad.

Log in and it goes away – I’m guessing it’s STW ad revenue for non members.

Unfortunately with the site recently consistently booting me out and having to re login it’s a pinta.

Log in and it goes away

It doesn’t. I do enjoy waking up and wondering what this site will do today that I’ve never seen anywhere else 🙂

Same, logged in and still it appears…….

🤷‍♂️ does for me …

I still get it while logged in, pretty much on every page.

I suspect that at some point it’ll be linked to an ad. feed.

Sounds like one of those citizen adverts from Starship Troopers

E-bikes, transport for Bugs … Click here to read more …

(Also getting it without context on every page, ads off, logged in).

Alternatively is it trying to tell us to go read the content instead of squabbling over what gear cables to buy?

instead of squabbling over what gear cables to buy?

Who is talking about bikes? Report them quickly before it catches!

That’s pretty annoying.

Using Chrome on Android, it does appear to be linked to an ad server.

Yet again more crappy website “features”.

Comes across as a bit of a punishment beating.
Strikes me as a bit petty.

Elon Musk buys Singletrack forum, yhihf.

Another pointless extra click*. Got it when I first logged in, then ironically, as I was reading this thread.
It certainly ain’t gonna make me subscribe, more like find another website to waste the day!

*well, about 4 – you click to go to the bottom of a thread, it pops up, you click to get rid and it takes you back to the top of the page! so you have to click to scroll down again. Sod that.

It doesn’t. I do enjoy waking up and wondering what this site will do today that I’ve never seen anywhere else

Actual LOL.

It does feel a bit like they’re deliberately not looking at how any other smoothly operating websites work.

I assumed it was to get around stuff taking aaages to load by only loading the first x posts, then alsking users to click to load the rest.

Has anyone reported this?

Morning all. It’s an experiment based around performance. It’s a widely used function that allows a page to load much quicker to get you started and gives the user the option to open up the rest of the page if they want to scroll further. It’s an experiment at the moment and one tweak I’m looking into today is seeing if the developers of the tool (Ezoic) can deactivate it for the forum, where I don’t think it’s warranted.

Yeah, really annoying

The only way I’ve found around it so far is by skipping the step that demands it by sticking “?utm_content=expand_article” on the end of every forum link opened as soon as it’s opened

It’s a widely used function

uh?

Its not a widely used function, this is the first time I have come across it anywhere.

It would be interesting to see how these so called improvements have affected the amount of people who became paid members or stopped using the forum as it regularly has these features added to annoy/ driveaway the freeloaders.

uh?

Shirley you’ve seen it before, as Mark says not usually on forums but often on a list of articles, products, etc? It certainly is widely used in other contexts (and with better implementation 😉 )

It’s a common choice as an alternative to pagination

What a **** terrible feature.

The site is slow, I know lets make it quicker by making people click and scroll more.

Shirley you’ve seen it before, as Mark says not usually on forums but often on a list of articles, products, etc? It certainly is widely used in other contexts (and with better implementation 😉 )

Yes and it is really annoying there too. Why do I need to click several times to see the full list of items in a shop, or the whole article? Feels like this was necessary when we had dial up and slow connectins, but just give me the whole page by default please!

Agreed 😋

The only times this site is especially slow for me is on the picture heavy threads, eg gifs to watch all day or whatever it’s called..

Glad it’s not just me. I find it very annoying so I hope the experiment is short lived.

Aaaargh. This is awful.

I knew there’d be a thread with other people getting bugged to death by this. I’ll be back in a few days in the hope it’s vanished as I can’t be doing with clicking and waiting again.

It’s a really bad idea…. WTF should I have to click (and reload) to see the whole page?

Yet another nail in the ⚰️.

I don’t know any other site that makes it so difficult to visit 🙁

and it comes up in the middle of posting, after clicking Submit! and DELETES WHAT YOU’VE TYPED. What a **** up

As a data point – I used to visit this site a lot, particularly for off topic news, but just go so fed up of the slow load times and usability issues I drifted away. Every time I come back after a month or so away it seems worse – and this issue plus the incessant flashing and blinking banners and adverts means I will drift away again.

It is so bad that I even logged in to say how bad it is.

I’ve been developing websites for about 20 years, this one has very poor usability and performance.

AAANDDD since we are here my first attempt to visit the site just hung with a blank page, like an unresolved domain error, only a refresh actually gave me any content.

looks like they want to move to the endless page style, which is always shit because the back button doesn’t return you to where you were just the top of the page as the place you were hasn’t loaded yet, **** nasty!

Mark, it’s shit. Please get rid asap.

Joining the moaners on this one, even had to click the “click” button to get to the bottom few posts of this thread before this post!

I’m sure the advertisers are delighted the management are driving punters away…

Again…

gives the user the option to open up the rest of the page if they want to scroll further

If I’m scrolling further it’s because I want to see the rest of the page, if you really must why not dynamically load on scroll? I didn’t notice performance issues until this hugely frustrating pop up.

I’d disable it wholesale.

I’d also, more importantly, get rid of the automatic log out that seems to happen all the time. I’m logged in, it’s a biking forum not a banking website, why does it ever log me out?