RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2021 I have the same problem. Quite often I have to wait for something to load, half the time timing out. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: I'd be less annoyed if I had the ad-free subs option available for you to use. I'm awaiting the conclusion of a protracted process. It'll only be £12 a year and it can't come a moment too soon. Thruppence a day? Did I read that right? I thought I’d need to start working out how to justify another subscription - not sewing up the holes in my trouser pockets so I don’t lose it. Guess it might not be called “silver membership” though (mooted several pages earlier and elsewhere): now I’m thinking, copper, nickel or brass*. (* although brass has it’s own value in railway modelling). 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 6, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, Keith Addenbrooke said: Guess it might not be called “silver membership” though (mooted several pages earlier and elsewhere): now I’m thinking, copper, nickel or brass*. I still call it Silver (when I'm hassling my boss) but we've decided on a different name, more in due course. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, AY Mod said: I still call it Silver So did the Lone Ranger, referring to his horse! 1 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2021 54 minutes ago, Keith Addenbrooke said: Thruppence a day? Did I read that right? I thought I’d need to start working out how to justify another subscription - not sewing up the holes in my trouser pockets so I don’t lose it. Guess it might not be called “silver membership” though (mooted several pages earlier and elsewhere): now I’m thinking, copper, nickel or brass*. (* although brass has it’s own value in railway modelling). Probably be called "tight *rse" membership 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Piewalker Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 My highlight was when I got an advert for an ad blocker... 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 6, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, melmerby said: Probably be called "tight *rse" membership Plum was favourite at one point. Until I considered that sending messages around the business about 'my plums', 'problems with plums' etc may, possibly, be misconstrued. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium D.Platt Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2021 What’s happening, I’ve found this last few weeks but especially tonight that the advertising is really becoming annoying and distracting from reading the forum , so much so that I found this article, and this has been an issue for the last year, is this deliberate to make readers become gold members? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 6, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 6, 2021 8 minutes ago, D.Platt said: is this deliberate to make readers become gold members? I think you may not have read enough of the topic. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2021 9 minutes ago, Luke Piewalker said: My highlight was when I got an advert for an ad blocker... You get those if you get linked from RMWeb to You Tube. I don't get them on You Tube directly because theirs are so disruptive I block them. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Kylestrome Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, AY Mod said: we've decided on a different name ... It's the right time of year to call it 'Scrooge' membership. 2 2 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Matt C Posted December 6, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 6, 2021 42 minutes ago, AY Mod said: Plum was favourite at one point. Until I considered that sending messages around the business about 'my plums', 'problems with plums' etc may, possibly, be misconstrued. On that note Andy a good tactic is to take a firm grip on the plums of whoever is Tinkering whilst suggesting they Stop ? Take note the greater the pressure the more attention they pay ! 4 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 The adverts are just insane now, the forum is unusable. Prepared to pay reasonable fee for ad-free usage. Let me know….. Dava 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) Rant mode ON Can't get onto the forum on my Android tablet. Why? The eediots who put the ads on (3 banners per page) are covering up the sign in message. Tell me who we need to "realign their thought processes" and it will be done.. This is awful..and what is worse the sign in process is falling over as well..ypu can wait forever for it to complete..when it already has. Sorry Andy.. it is not your fault but whoever is doing it needs to doit properly testing the ad locations on all sorts of devices..or are they technology dulams? Baz Edited December 7, 2021 by Barry O 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 I have no alternative than to turn my ad blocker on. Reluctantly as this is a 'free to air' site but the ads were making it unusable. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mike Bellamy Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 All a bit odd as all I have at the moment is the video constantly running on the right hand side of the screen which is unobtrusive and doesn't hide anything. I do not have any other adverts or blank spaces anywhere - and that's without using an ad-blocker and so I'm puzzled why others are having such difficulties. . 1 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Nick C Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2021 It sounds like "words need to be had" at higher levels in Warners - the number one, absolutely inviolable rule, in software & web development, is that you never, under any circumstances whatsoever, test anything on a live site - we generally have three levels (development, QA, and live). If budget is really tight the first two can be combined (although that of course slows things down, as you can't do both at once) 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 48 minutes ago, Mike Bellamy said: All a bit odd as all I have at the moment is the video constantly running on the right hand side of the screen which is unobtrusive and doesn't hide anything. I do not have any other adverts or blank spaces anywhere - and that's without using an ad-blocker and so I'm puzzled why others are having such difficulties. . It depends on your browser, your software and the device you are using..Obviously not been tested properly. See nothing on my phone but can't get on on my tablet..both Android.. Baz 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Andy Hayter Posted December 7, 2021 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 It's not just whether you have an ad blocker or not Mike - although they will normally cut out all of the rubbish that is being inflicted. It also depends on what type of device you have - mobile phone, tablet, computer as well as the operating system - Apple, android, Microsoft Edge, Firefox etc. and even what level of security settings you have installed. I see Barry O has also replied in this vein 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahame Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 On my tablet I'm now getting a white bar that creeps down from the top and obscures various options, like profile and the list of unread messages, preventing them being selected. There's no 'x' on it, like the annoying adverts that take up the full width of the screen, for closing them down. Any advise? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Mike Bellamy said: All a bit odd as all I have at the moment is the video constantly running on the right hand side of the screen which is unobtrusive and doesn't hide anything. I do not have any other adverts or blank spaces anywhere - and that's without using an ad-blocker and so I'm puzzled why others are having such difficulties. . Like Mike , I'm not seeing anything different on my PC or iPad . Basically I've just got the video running bottom right . However , the whole site seems very slow to load up . 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasatcopthorne Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) 18 hours ago, eldavo said: Cheers Andy. From my 40+ years of software development it really seems as though the control of this site is now in the hands of the wrong people. The fact that folks are able to make fundamental changes on a live system with clearly no testing is a recipe for disaster. RMweb is becoming increasingly like many other tacky sites overloaded with advertising of a dubious nature. It's not the site you created and worked hard for. Cheers Dave You lost me at the end, Dave. I don't remember Andy creating this site. Altered it? Yes Created it? No Sorry. Edited December 7, 2021 by dasatcopthorne 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 7, 2021 Curious. On a PC (the "Grandpa Box" according to Dilbert, though I'm not there yet) I'm currently only seeing the bottom-right videos (chaffinch etc.) and this has been the case for some weeks. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 7, 2021 Moderators Share Posted December 7, 2021 15 minutes ago, Compound2632 said: Curious. On a PC (the "Grandpa Box" according to Dilbert, though I'm not there yet) I'm currently only seeing the bottom-right videos (chaffinch etc.) and this has been the case for some weeks. Yes; I think the main issue since yesterday afternoon relates to tablets. Is everyone who's risen up over the last 24 hours seeing this on Android and Apple tablets? Mobile and Desktops seem to be the same. Am I correct? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted December 7, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 7, 2021 22 minutes ago, dasatcopthorne said: You lost me at the end, Dave. I don't remember Andy creating this site. Altered it? Yes Created it? No Sorry. I'm puzzled, could you elaborate? We're all co-creators here, but Andy set up RMweb from day one and made the whole thing happen. 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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