Are Banner Ads at top of Forum Changing

[chessie4905]

They WERE centered till I started to respond to this post. Then they switched.

[buswarrior]

Ads are behaving at the top, rotating, via mobile Firefox browser on an android powered Blackberry Key2.

The troubleshooters need some specifics to find the pattern of irregularities.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[richard5933]

Super-sized Google ads are back,at least on the mobile layout. Makes the site really difficult to read.

[buswarrior]

Giant blue space jerks into the top when i change pages...

That is zero degrees celsius, settle down America...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[chessie4905]

Mines fine on taablet.

[buswarrior]

Here's the screen captures of all the stuff this morning:

[buswarrior]

The rest, all these links at the bottom...

And the "reply" button has migrated to the top of the topic from the bottom, so to reply you have to scroll back up.

[buswarrior]

And then my fat fingers...

Anyway, ads and ads everywhere, these links at the bottom, and the reply button migrated up above the messages.

Good luck!

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[chessie4905]

That's this sites issues. Looks like some more work needs done.

[brmax]

Yep its a pattern Ive also seen with the ads, a bit worse though!

Its tough seeing any original site ads, and an issue to my system is these "additional ads" were only viewable if I wasn't signed/logged in. ( I shoulda kept quiet ! )

Now login has no effect in the infiltration of these ads!

Im not familiar how the simple machines website advertisement contracts actually purvey.
Im here to listen though.


In any case, best wishes and
Happy New Year!

Floyd

[Krash]

Two different things going on here.  Header ads were changed month or two ago by Jorge, who runs the main website.  Purpose was to make them more responsive.  Don't know what he did, I don't see ads because I run a lot of security on my browser, just see blank frames, but they're placed normally every time I view the forum.  Forum caching is disabled, afaik there's no server caching running, so those who see the same ads every page load may be having a problem with browser caching.

The google ads I'm working on.  There may be a way to make them smaller, haven't found it yet.

Anyone running browser tracking protection, plugins like Ghostery, or an ad blocker should not see the ads, but you may see empty frames that could affect page formatting on mobile devices.  Not much can be done about that.

[richard5933]

Thanks for the update Krash.

The problem seems to be the most difficult when viewing the site on a smartphone. Have to scroll down more than a full screen each time you click on something. It was just the two ads at the top, now the full bottom half of the screen is covered by the Google ad.