I will message Vicki and see what is happening.
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Oh Thanks! I tried to hit the button for "View Site Leaders" and it doesn't work. I shouldn't bitch cause it makes me feel guilty and I don't want to put people off from using the forum. I also think though that if I paid for premium to help support the thing I shouldn't have to download an ad blocker. And who's the new admin? An intro would be cool.
Mine says it's adblock plus. It's free.
Get used to it. :bummer:
My ads come from Tapatalk
Load times are not slow due to the addition of ads but because of the script I had to write in order to correct the misalignment of the dogs of the month add on. I added the script on the same day that I embedded the ads. That may be why the perception is that the ads are causing slow load times. The ads are being served by Google and the page does not wait on the ads to load. Sorry folks, what you see here is a result of the forum being broken. We have plans to fix it by transitioning away from this broken platform but that takes money and that's the reason for the ads. My name is Tony and I am here at Vicki's invitation. I know that my arrival was low key but given that when I came on board I didn't have much time to move the forum to it's new server and deal with the immediate problems that created, I didn't think the time was right for a big intro so that's why we did a small blurb instead. I do want to say now that I do look forward to meeting and interacting with everyone on on the forum in the weeks and months ahead.
We appreciate all of our members. We know many of you have been here a very long time. We are cognizant of the member frustration with having to navigate a broken forum. I ask for your patience. Mastiff Forum will be the first of the 3 forums we moved to be migrated to a new platform. In part because it is the most broken. This work will begin soon but it will take time.
Right now the ads cannot differentiate between premium and regular members. Once we migrate we will buy a plugin that will be able to do that. Spending money here to fix the broken plugin that may not work anyway because the forum software is jacked is counterintuitive. Hang in there. A year from now no one will remember these dark days!
Would it be easier to start a new forum? What would happen to this one if you did?
We can transition with all member credentials and posts intact. That is much better than starting from scratch. Albums may not make it. We'll see.
It's slow, not dial up slow though.
