JerryinTH Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 I understand the forum needs to make money, but you're totally killing the user experience with your google ads after every 6th post. Sometimes the page doesn't even show the posts because the ads take to long too load and just make me leave the page. I know everyone is going to say 'if you don't like it go somewhere else' but it's more meant as positive critic than anything else. I'd rather have a pop up or under here and there than the constant ads in my face which make TVF almost unreadable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonjoe Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Post removed that violated this forum rule. Quote 25) No public discussion is allowed with regard to advertisements or sponsors, or methods of blocking advertisements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baboon Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 Well said, Jerry. I forum with advertising I can quite understand but this is now looking more like an advertising site with a forum in between the gaps. It's a real pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notmyself Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 This is what the 'software upgrade' is for. It was sold to us members as being an improvement but does anyone think anything has been improved? No. The site used to have only limited ads because it was to help people, to inform people. Around the mid 2000's it changed so as to generate revenue to pay for hosting etc. Already for many many years the site has changed in that the underlying purpose is to generate revenue and now it has been sold it will only become worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted September 16, 2016 Share Posted September 16, 2016 4 hours ago, ubonjoe said: 25) No public discussion is allowed with regard to advertisements or sponsors, or methods of blocking advertisements. 7 minutes ago, notmyself said: This is what the 'software upgrade' is for. It was sold to us members as being an improvement but does anyone think anything has been improved? No. The site used to have only limited ads because it was to help people, to inform people. Around the mid 2000's it changed so as to generate revenue to pay for hosting etc. Already for many many years the site has changed in that the underlying purpose is to generate revenue and now it has been sold it will only become worse. 3 hours ago, baboon said: Well said, Jerry. I forum with advertising I can quite understand but this is now looking more like an advertising site with a forum in between the gaps. It's a real pity. Read between the lines fellas.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxpwzrd Posted September 17, 2016 Share Posted September 17, 2016 19 hours ago, baboon said: Well said, Jerry. I forum with advertising I can quite understand but this is now looking more like an advertising site with a forum in between the gaps. It's a real pity. 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 The way I remember it, it was an ad embedded in every second post before the software change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantilley Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 (edited) 7 posts in this thread and no ad between posts 6 and 7. Also the purpose of the upgrade, as I understand, was not as an "improvement" but a necessity because the previous version was obsolete and no longer supported. Edit: 8 posts now, still no ad. Edited September 19, 2016 by dantilley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Doctor Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 We have actually removed 50% of the adverts that were on the site, mainly at the top and there were 12 adverts between the posts before. The difference is you now see ads on mobil which were not there before. Heads up the ads in between posts will be back soon although not the one that we in the top post which stopped you seeing images correctly etc.. Also if you see any blocking posts etc, please send us a screenshot so we can see why, as the banners are responsive to both height and width. Yes the upgrade was to make sure we got support from the vendors and didn't just have to say this is the end.... TD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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