Shit's Borked

[shadow_operative2.0 15797]

Everything is SLOW. 

[Prepuce of Doom 20957]

Everything seems to be okay now, but a couple of minutes ago I received this message. Doubt it's helpful in any way, but figured I'd post it just in case. 

 

[dieucla98 2923]

Thanks @immamac - my case of ads diarrhea has been fixed.

[elfenix 34161]

i hope that was a server upgrade in anticipation of tomorrow

[shadow_operative2.0 15797]

Email notifications down again also. 

[immamac 42400]

Was at the colo doing some cable management. Should have been a blip. Ended up being like 2 minutes and change. 

[immamac 42400]

Everything should be good now. 

18 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i hope that was a server upgrade in anticipation of tomorrow

It also was this. 2 birds 1 stone. 

[Cornpop 230]

What DEFCON level are we at right now?

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

5 minutes ago, Cornpop said:

What DEFCON level are we at right now?

Idk but this website has gone full potato. Holy fuck what an abortion 

[immamac 42400]

5 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

Idk but this website has gone full potato. Holy fuck what an abortion 

What? Is the site slow for you right now? 

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

9 minutes ago, immamac said:

What? Is the site slow for you right now? 

Slow. Ad aids everywhere. Tapa is faster and easier right now. Here’s a screenshot of what I’m seeing as I’m trying to type 

[immamac 42400]

Fixed? I'm moving the scroll up button to the left side or seeing if the dismissal can be on the left. They clobber. 

[BayouBill 835]

This is ridiculous. Been a surly/shag poster since 2011. Help. Me.

[shadow_operative2.0 15797]

iPad view still borked on all threads. 

[Herbie Hancock 7296]

56 minutes ago, immamac said:

Fixed? I'm moving the scroll up button to the left side or seeing if the dismissal can be on the left. They clobber. 

Much better now. Still slow, but I can tolerate that with the ad aids being gone 

[ChickenNuggets 1611]

How do i become a member to avoid the ads? I couldn't post for most of this afternoon and even now I have adds covering up posts with no way to remove them. I get this site needs to make money, not complaining. I just want to improve my experience here.

 

edit: I've been around since the shaggy days.. hell, since the hornfans days... but took a decade off after that shitstorm went down. Rejoined surly back in 2021 I guess. If any of that makes a difference.

Edited October 8, 2022 by ChickenNuggets

[Guest]

Ads everywhere. And I’ve been looking at them like an old school Sears catalog. But it’s everywhere. Fix this shit Rich!

[NWBuck 8536]

1 hour ago, Porterhouse said:

Ads everywhere. And I’ve been looking at them like an old school Sears catalog. But it’s everywhere. Fix this shit Rich!

The lingerie section? 

I'm familiar... Lady Craftsman 

[immamac 42400]

2 hours ago, ChickenNuggets said:

How do i become a member to avoid the ads? I couldn't post for most of this afternoon and even now I have adds covering up posts with no way to remove them. I get this site needs to make money, not complaining. I just want to improve my experience here.

 

edit: I've been around since the shaggy days.. hell, since the hornfans days... but took a decade off after that shitstorm went down. Rejoined surly back in 2021 I guess. If any of that makes a difference.

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/subscriptions/

2 hours ago, Porterhouse said:

Ads everywhere. And I’ve been looking at them like an old school Sears catalog. But it’s everywhere. Fix this shit Rich!

Deleted accounts don’t inherit. 

[Rimbo 25707]

I'm seeing ads and I'm a paid type person. 'Sup with that?

[Cornpop 230]

It appears Surly has contracted monkeypox

[Pato del Muerto 52239]

Seeing video ads where it appears there should be links or imbedded content. When the ad is over, it disappears and leaves an empty post. 
 

but later someone might quote it, so I know it isn’t really empty, just borked. 

[Capt. Squints 176]

It's bad. This shit is giving me Tourettes.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Capt. Squints
I suck at this

[immamac 42400]

14 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Seeing video ads where it appears there should be links or imbedded content. When the ad is over, it disappears and leaves an empty post. 
 

but later someone might quote it, so I know it isn’t really empty, just borked. 

I don’t know how you are seeing ads. What theme are you using? 

I logged in as you and see no ads. 

[Pato del Muerto 52239]

10 minutes ago, immamac said:

I don’t know how you are seeing ads. What theme are you using? 

I logged in as you and see no ads. 

I went to page 893 of the Ukraine thread and scrolled down when the stuff loaded- here’s 2 examples.

when the ad finishes, I’m left with an empty post  

theme is surly main dark.  On phone  .

Edited October 8, 2022 by Pato del Muerto

[immamac 42400]

4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I went to page 893 of the Ukraine thread and scrolled down when the stuff loaded- here’s 2 examples.

when the ad finishes, I’m left with an empty post  

theme is surly main dark.  On phone  .

I’ll look into it, but you should probably use light theme until I can get to a computer and fix it after the game. 

[Pato del Muerto 52239]

1 minute ago, immamac said:

I’ll look into it, but you should probably use light theme until I can get to a computer and fix it after the game. 

Not a huge deal, especially before the game. Just wanted to make it known. 

[Rimbo 25707]

33 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Seeing video ads where it appears there should be links or imbedded content. When the ad is over, it disappears and leaves an empty post. 
 

but later someone might quote it, so I know it isn’t really empty, just borked. 

 

19 minutes ago, immamac said:

I don’t know how you are seeing ads. What theme are you using? 

I logged in as you and see no ads. 

I saw exactly what Pato saw last night, but in the light theme. Same thread, too.

Seeing more of it today in that thread... blank posts that look like they should have embedded content, but sometimes show ads instead.

This is on chrome mobile (Android)

Edited October 8, 2022 by Rimbo

[Pato del Muerto 52239]

I hope the ads are at least getting tracked correctly and you are getting paid. 

[immamac 42400]

54 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

 

I saw exactly what Pato saw last night, but in the light theme. Same thread, too.

Seeing more of it today in that thread... blank posts that look like they should have embedded content, but sometimes show ads instead.

This is on chrome mobile (Android)

I also logged in as you chrome android and saw nothing. 

[Slacks 6788]

Fortunately, I'm high, so I'm amused by the bullshittery and have enjoyed a game or ten of "find the X".

[Zepol87 9156]

Yea on mobile closing ads isn't easy. Also never seen this many before

[Slacks 6788]

35 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Yea on mobile closing ads isn't easy. Also never seen this many before

In a week.

[LCHorn 2571]

2 hours ago, Rimbo said:

 

I saw exactly what Pato saw last night, but in the light theme. Same thread, too.

Seeing more of it today in that thread... blank posts that look like they should have embedded content, but sometimes show ads instead.

This is on chrome mobile (Android)

I’m having the same issue on an iPhone and Adblock seems to have no effect.  

[Rimbo 25707]

2 hours ago, immamac said:

I also logged in as you chrome android and saw nothing. 

I wonder if it depends on the server you hit or somethin'

[Slacks 6788]

Ads everwhere seem to have gone away.  

Thanks, @immamac for unborking.

ousucks.

[Slacks 6788]

3 minutes ago, Slacks said:

Ads everwhere seem to have gone away.  

Thanks, @immamac for unborking.

ousucks.

Premature... Shit is booked.

[SurlyGator 858]

Still ads everywhere for me.  iPad, light vs dark doesn’t change anything.  If this is the new treefiddy I will be cancelling.

[Guest]

This site has become completely unusable on my PC.  The ads are so intrusive I’m not even able to post from the computer.  I can eventually make my way through the ads on my phone to post.  I go to many websites and this one has by far the most challenging user experience.  

[tokamak 6347]

This is what it looks like for me on Safari mobile right now. I get that the site needs to make money, but I gotta click a tiny partially obscured X to load more posts or see my notifications. Really annoying. 

[Guest]

Ads everywhere. @immamac

[StassneyHorn 6515]

This time I can’t click “Next” to go to another page as it’s grayed out. The option to open in app or safari only loads outside CR. 

 

Edited October 9, 2022 by StassneyHorn

[Guest]

Never seen this many ads on every page. Totally borked. 

[immamac 42400]

The new partner is going to fix all the issues starting tomorrow. Thanks for the patience. If you are treefiddy and seeing ads please dm me so I can troubleshoot with you. 

[Zepol87 9156]

8 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

This time I can’t click “Next” to go to another page as it’s grayed out. The option to open in app or safari only loads outside CR. 

 

Yea this is the worst part of my new ads. Can't click shit to close them 

[immamac 42400]

Fix incoming. 

[immamac 42400]

On 10/8/2022 at 3:20 PM, axiom of foundation said:

This site has become completely unusable on my PC.  The ads are so intrusive I’m not even able to post from the computer.  I can eventually make my way through the ads on my phone to post.  I go to many websites and this one has by far the most challenging user experience.  

this is going to be fixed later today - right now logged out and logged in users were seeing the same ads that will change today. 

[SurlyBDR 22525]

I cant give certain rep on posts that have something embedded. For example, I can give the bottom 3 choices, but anything that's overlaying the youtube video, it just clicks on the video to start it. Same with tweets that are embedded.

[immamac 42400]

1 hour ago, SurlyBDR said:

I cant give certain rep on posts that have something embedded. For example, I can give the bottom 3 choices, but anything that's overlaying the youtube video, it just clicks on the video to start it. Same with tweets that are embedded.

iPhone? WebKit is a garbage browser. 

[Cornpop 230]

May be time to just burn it to the ground and start over