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Those are new "Internal ad skins". Marketing decided to implement them.
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Huh. Zero issues regarding this. Win7/Firefox/Premium User. No adblock. AVG.
remorajunbao wrote:
One day I'm going to fly to Canada and open the curtains in your office.
Huh? I lost the conversation after white panties snake-bottom.
Wait, what?
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Those are new "Internal ad skins". Marketing decided to implement them.
Marketing needs to have their heads examined then. I normally refrain from blocking ads from this site because I know that's how you get revenue (and I don't pay premium, so I figure that's fair). Ad block doesn't get rid of the issue (just replaces it with a fully black border), but I'll be blocking all ads on this site until the side borders are eliminated. It makes the site ugly as sin (And I get a sad face every time I see the plea to white list the site), but it's ugly as sin right now anyway.
WTF were they thinking? Some of us like to resize our windows in order to make the space with the words in it (the part we actually use) more visible. Now, you're eating up that space with a big ol black border. For no reason at all. I can make the border disappear if I narrow the width of my window, so it's not like you're forcing me to see the ads. You're just forcing me to view the site in a smaller window frame than I'd like.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
gbaji wrote:
WTF were they thinking? Some of us like to resize our windows in order to make the space with the words in it (the part we actually use) more visible.
CTRL + PlusKey
BrownDuck wrote:
gbaji wrote:
WTF were they thinking? Some of us like to resize our windows in order to make the space with the words in it (the part we actually use) more visible.
CTRL + PlusKey
Which changes the resolution/font, not the relative viewable size of the frame. I want to see more stuff on the screen. Given my typing style, it should be obvious why.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
Christ you're whiny.
Btw, thanks BD.
Btw, thanks BD.
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Meh, the day they fucked with the forum layout in order to cram in more ads was the day they reneged on their promise that premium users wouldn't be affected by advertisements and I knew it was time to give up paying for the site. Now they just get AdBlocked and Grease Monkey'd into something sort of resembling what I used to pay for.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Uglysasquatch wrote:
Christ you're whiny.
You must be new here.
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Btw, thanks BD.
You didn't know how to zoom in/out in a web browser? Well, I guess as long as you're learning, it's all good.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
for what its worth, I got outvoted.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
for what its worth, I got outvoted.
I'm still confused about what they think they're accomplishing, other than annoying people.
If I set my window size to 986 pixels wide, I see no black border or Wow images. The Frame with the usual forum stuff completely fills the window. No scroll bar either. If I extend it any wider than that, all of that extra width is taken up with black borders on the right and left. So I extend it to 1600 pixels, and I've got the exact same sized forum frame floating between 3 inch wide black borders on each side.
I can't figure out what possible marketing advantage they think this gives them. Anyone who doesn't want to see the ads can eliminate them by shrinking the width of the window without shrinking their visible/usable forum space at all. All it really accomplishes is pissing off people who'd like to view the forum in a wider format. I have absolutely no reason to leave my window sized wider just to see the ad, do I? And neither does anyone else. So no ad being viewed, but pissed off customers equal really really really stupid marketing.
And on top of that, no ad revenue for the normal banners that they might otherwise be getting. Please tell me this is a temporary thing.
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
for what its worth, I got outvoted.
gbaji wrote:
I'm still confused about what they think they're accomplishing
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gbaji wrote:
Please tell me this is a temporary thing.
It isn't. Apperently part of the justification is that only 20% of non premium users ever even see the existing ads because of adblock.
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What are we talking about, anyway?
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Please tell me this is a temporary thing.
So rather than working to attract more paying premium users, the answer is to push more of the non-premium users towards finding ways to block the intrusive ads.
Makes sense.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
In my template the forum takes up pretty much the whole width of the window. How does it look for you Joph? I've given you premium for a couple days.
resolution 1366x768. I don't have a bigger monitor where I am right now, and I don't recall if the forum grows or not.
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 11:27am by Xsarus
resolution 1366x768. I don't have a bigger monitor where I am right now, and I don't recall if the forum grows or not.
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 11:27am by Xsarus
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I'm at work right now but at 1280x1024 square screen resolution it looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/oLxpm.jpg
I'd have to see how it looks on the wide screen at home.
http://i.imgur.com/oLxpm.jpg
I'd have to see how it looks on the wide screen at home.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
1366x768 and the template takes up the whole width, yes.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
1920x1080 and the template takes up about 60% of the width of my screen.
Jophiel wrote:
I'm at work right now but at 1280x1024 square screen resolution it looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/oLxpm.jpg
I'd have to see how it looks on the wide screen at home.
http://i.imgur.com/oLxpm.jpg
I'd have to see how it looks on the wide screen at home.
Looks like zam.com sucks vs the wow.allakhazam.com template.
Wow, yeah, that's terrible.
http://wow.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=4&mid=1347307664270135743&p=1#48
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 11:53am by Xsarus
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WOW template looks a lot nicer and comes close to the borders for me. Again, I'd have to check it on a wide screen.
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 12:44pm by Jophiel
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 12:44pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I use the TOR template. By far the most pleasant of the options, imo.
IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
Jophiel wrote:
WOW template looks a lot nicer and comes close to the borders for me. Again, I'd have to check it on a wide screen.
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 12:44pm by Jophiel
Edited, Sep 13th 2012 12:44pm by Jophiel
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