Please Help Us. Is our Forum Interface Behaving Badly?

benherman1 · July 23, 2021, 06:04:26 AM

Richard, I'd 100% recommend you switch to FireFox or Chrome on the new Mac. I've done tech support for years and Safari is just an endless source of problems with no benefits. I got out of direct user support right before the pandemic hit. That combined with all the crap MS and Apple are pushing now makes me glad I did.

richard5933 · July 23, 2021, 06:46:57 AM

Quote from: benherman1 on July 23, 2021, 06:04:26 AM
Richard, I'd 100% recommend you switch to FireFox or Chrome on the new Mac. I've done tech support for years and Safari is just an endless source of problems with no benefits. I got out of direct user support right before the pandemic hit. That combined with all the crap MS and Apple are pushing now makes me glad I did.

I would except that FF or Chrome are not optimized for the new M1 chip, meaning that they cause an excessive use of the SSD and system resources. Much smoother sailing using Safari since it's designed to be run on the M1.

Krash · July 23, 2021, 09:48:46 AM

Quote from: richard5933 on July 23, 2021, 12:18:38 AM
Is IE still out there or are you talking about Edge?

Only browsers I have installed are FF and IE11 (Win 8.1). Strictly speaking FF does not contain an ad blocker, but it does a good job of blocking trackers. They're not just ads, and I don't see them anywhere.

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What ever you did has removed the more annoying ads, and all that's left are the two across the top right now.

That's what should happen. Right column and bottom ads are Google Adsense in portal blocks, they're disabled. Header ads were originally hardcoded into forum index template, someone's messed with formatting so they don't display correctly in some browsers, will fix that after we're moved.

Quote from: buswarrior on July 22, 2021, 07:43:47 PM
How the beepity did you get Gary weaned off GoDaddy???

Wasn't easy.

Glennman · July 23, 2021, 12:34:06 PM

It seems to work ok for me. Thanks.

chessie4905 · July 23, 2021, 07:30:58 PM

Mines ok now.
Maybe while you are working on things. See what it takes to remove these supplemental social security, car extended warranties, law suits, medical prescription ads from tv channels.😁

Krash · July 23, 2021, 08:10:43 PM

Not a problem, I stopped watching tv 15-20 years ago.

Krash · July 24, 2021, 02:45:49 PM

I've restored the sidebar ads, most of the complaints have been about bottom ads, those remain disabled. Sidebar ads are displaying normally for me in IE with all tracking protection disabled. Let me know if there are any problems.