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Let me know if you see a very noticeable difference in performance today and in the upcoming days. We are doing some pretty substantial optimizations and I'm afraid of confirmation bias on my side. 

The site seems like it's fucking flying right now though. 

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Pop up ads? There are no pop ups. There are ads in cloak room if you are not treefiddy now. I announced that over a year and a half ago and just never got to it. 

There are also ads for any new members (which you are not) so if you are seeing ads other than cloak room let me know and I'll fix.

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5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Pony up the dough and join the big boys.

What am I paying for? I figure I’ve already gotten all the useful tips on chili and BBQ that are to be had around here. I learned what pozole is and got a good recipe for green chile stew. And that was back on shaggy. No ads.

Would I be paying for insightful commentary on the sport of football? I don’t think so. Insults because of who I am and where I’m from? I already get that for free.

Aggressive ads in the Cloak Room are just saying you should take all political talk to DT.

live only ever joined two porn sites in my life, didn’t have to pay, and when I did, those ads went away. (Because I know you want to know, one was PlanetSuzy. I don’t remember what the other one was.)

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6 hours ago, BillyBadAss said:

.. I say pop up, they are not a separate dialog, but act like popups in they they load delayed and get in the way as you try to scroll/read.

Ah the intext ads that repeat. I'll get those to only load once. 

6 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Never saw any until yesterday. Seems pretty trashy. Like it’s a porn site or something. 

It's CR only. 

5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What am I paying for? I figure I’ve already gotten all the useful tips on chili and BBQ that are to be had around here. I learned what pozole is and got a good recipe for green chile stew. And that was back on shaggy. No ads.

Would I be paying for insightful commentary on the sport of football? I don’t think so. Insults because of who I am and where I’m from? I already get that for free.

Aggressive ads in the Cloak Room are just saying you should take all political talk to DT.

live only ever joined two porn sites in my life, didn’t have to pay, and when I did, those ads went away. (Because I know you want to know, one was PlanetSuzy. I don’t remember what the other one was.)

It's almost like this is a sports site and there may be a thread where I talked about ads being shown in CR to discourage so much traffic there or actually have people pony up to pay so they don't see them. 

5 hours ago, Underdog said:

Glad I'm not the only one getting the pop ups in CR. 

Everyone except treefiddy sees ads in CR. 

Everyone who is in the new members group (lurkers who don't contribute content) see an ad lite experience. 

Everyone else who is a full member does not see any ads except cloak room.

If you are not signed in you see ads. 

You also get access to the discord, you get unlimited rep, you get unlimited photo storage, and you get the treefiddy badge for signing up. I'm open to other things you would like for your money, because content especially football content will always be free here except for those who only consume. 

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5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What am I paying for? I figure I’ve already gotten all the useful tips on chili and BBQ that are to be had around here. I learned what pozole is and got a good recipe for green chile stew. And that was back on shaggy. No ads.

Would I be paying for insightful commentary on the sport of football? I don’t think so. Insults because of who I am and where I’m from? I already get that for free.

Aggressive ads in the Cloak Room are just saying you should take all political talk to DT.

live only ever joined two porn sites in my life, didn’t have to pay, and when I did, those ads went away. (Because I know you want to know, one was PlanetSuzy. I don’t remember what the other one was.)

You also get unlimited time to edit or delete your own posts with subscription. 

Again open to more things, and ads are only for Cloak Room because this isn't a fucking politics site. Expect those ads to be less random in the coming weeks they will become political ads paid for by campaigns. 

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27 minutes ago, immamac said:

What device/browser are you on? 

I got one of those as well, on an android phone using Chrome. 

I'm gonna end up getting treefiddy, considering how much I use this site, but you should embrace how good of a sub the politics forum is. It's low hanging fruit for the face painters, but there's lots of good information. 

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Just now, Doc Sam Beckett said:

I got one of those as well, on an android phone using Chrome. 

I'm gonna end up getting treefiddy, considering how much I use this site, but you should embrace how good of a sub the politics forum is. It's low hanging fruit for the face painters, but there's lots of good information. 

I am very well aware of how much traffic that sub forum gets. Which is why I'm monetizing it. I left over 100k on the table this election cycle from not running ads in there for non paying folks. 

In the true off-season it's ~60% of the boards traffic.

I'm open to changing the experience to be less intrusive, but ads are staying for non-paying members in cloak room. I don't run cookie based ads they are all direct buy campaigns, which is already a pretty big deal from a privacy of information perspective.

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49 minutes ago, TonyTexas said:

I wish you would try to keep pinned topics to a minimum. There’s 4 right now but was up to 6 yesterday . Takes up a whole screen in fluid mode. 

Yeah the 2 podcast threads I want to find a better solution for. 

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1 hour ago, Nolacycling said:

Believe I am tree fiddy and just started receiving "scroll-through?" Ads in CR.

Seems you upgraded to quad at some point and kept paying 3.50 through paypal and it left you in limbo. Fixed let's see if it works next month if not I'll send you a DM and we will figure it out! 

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Not sure if this goes here or in the borked thread, but I've been having a lot of issues with reddit links and Chrome lately. Most won't play in the thread they're posted on (not really a new problem), so I open them in a new tab. Before, that would always work. But over the last week or so the videos won't even play once opened in a new Reddit tab. They will play if I copy the link into a Firefox tab. Here's an example of a link (I added a space after www. so it doesn't embed again. Could some of the stuff added into the link by Surly (i.e., the red text) be causing the issue? 

https://www. reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/mbwznc/giving_mcnuggets_to_a_hungry_stray_dog/?ref=share&ref_source=embed&utm_content=comments&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=872aa18065bb4963964806324885a0be&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=mbwznc 

 It's also caching something. Even if I past the actual source url -- https://www. reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/mbwznc/giving_mcnuggets_to_a_hungry_stray_dog/ -- into a new Chrome window, it still won't play. Pasting this one into an incognito window works through

 

 

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8 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Today is the first time I’ve encountered ads since signing up to pay into the site. Is this the new policy?

I don't see any subscriptions or donations from your account at all. I see a lot of attempted sign ups, but no actual payments processed through paypal or stripe with your email.

You are a Full Member, you only see ads in the CR. If you are treefiddy you don't see ads at all. If you think that there is an error on the payment processing on my side feel free to send me a DM with a screenshot of your transactions and I'll see what we can do to fix it.

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On 3/20/2021 at 3:37 PM, immamac said:

You also get unlimited time to edit or delete your own posts with subscription. 

Again open to more things, and ads are only for Cloak Room because this isn't a fucking politics site. Expect those ads to be less random in the coming weeks they will become political ads paid for by campaigns. 

If I pay can you put ads in DT?

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On 3/30/2021 at 1:55 PM, Vic Mackey said:

I like the Tapatalk function where we can hide the pinned topics when entering a section. Is it possible to do this for the online browser version?

That's actually a good question, I'm gonna figure that out.

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The ads with sound on Tapatalk are getting very intrusive, at this point. If it's on Tapatalk's side, I'm done with them. If not, just a heads up that every thread I've clicked on in Tapa has had an ad with sound, sometimes just sound that I can't find and turn off.

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6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Can we delete “Editor’s Corner” on the $9.95 section? On mobile you have to scroll beyond an 18 month old thread on hiring Deadspin reporters before you get to the actual new recruiting posts. 

I'm not sure I follow how are you navigating the forum? 

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Is there an option to turn on, or a mod available perhaps, that saves your follow preferences so you can one-click?

Seems like a trivial option to be able to set the pref once in personal settings, and be good. Like if you don't want email digests or whatever. Seems easier than having to change it every time?

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I have nothing to do with tapatalk except installing the plugin. That's on their end. 
Okay, thanks. I'm going to have to uninstall Tapa for good. Now several ads run at the same time and sometimes audio from an ad that's not even in the feed runs.

They completely butchered what used to be an amazing app.
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