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[th4tguy]

Above is an example of my every interaction with the site. I’m happy to deal with ads. It’s how this site stays up and it’s a necessity but please please please stop using a pinned, retractable ad at the top of the page. It blocks navigation buttons and is just super annoying. In general, blocking site links/ icons with ads just isn’t great layout.

 

[Urban]

if the ad was atleast in black in dark mode. its too bright if i surf on my smartphone

 

[DGrayson]

EviLore

 

[ManaByte]

if the ad was atleast in black in dark mode. its too bright if i surf on my smartphone

 

[AJUMP23]

Ya that ad sucks.

 

[TommyCronin6969]

Just click on the ad and buy the product with a credit card and it'll go away.

 

[ReBurn]

Try it now

 

[th4tguy]

Try it now

I truly wasn’t expecting gold out of this. Thanks and I greatly appreciate it.
Would still love a proper review of the ad layout for the site to avoid blocking site functionality.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

The NeoGAF mobile experience:

You can’t access top navbar when you scroll down. So when you are all the way at the bottom of the conversation, you have scroll forever until you are at the very top to access basic functionality. Not to mention that ads break the page flow (at least on iOS / Chrome) and sometimes you simply can't scroll at all and have to reload the page over and over.

Edit: changing body padding-top to 0px and that ad element (ins) top to 50px fixes the problem.

 

[Regginator]

This thread reminds me to ask a question I've always meant to ask but never really bothered with:

How are you supposed to view notifications on mobile? Like, I can see the amount of notifications (e.g. +3 or whatever) but there's no way to click wherever to actually display them. On a desktop, you just click the notification bell and a little drop-down menu gives you an overview of the notification. But on my phone, I always have to either temporarily revert to "desktop view" on mobile (Galaxy Internet) or just not read the notifications until I'm behind my pc.

I'm not a digitally illiterate boomer or whatever, I'm a certified Millennial™ (capital M), but fuck me I have no idea.

 

[Lunarorbit]

This thread reminds me to ask a question I've always meant to ask but never really bothered with:

How are you supposed to view notifications on mobile? Like, I can see the amount of notifications (e.g. +3 or whatever) but there's no way to click wherever to actually display them. On a desktop, you just click the notification bell and a little drop-down menu gives you an overview of the notification. But on my phone, I always have to either temporarily revert to "desktop view" on mobile (Galaxy Internet) or just not read the notifications until I'm behind my pc.

I'm not a digitally illiterate boomer or whatever, I'm a certified Millennial™ (capital M), but fuck me I have no idea.

To see the notification bell on mobile I just tap the drop down banners arrow symbol. Then the bell,search, and mail features show up on the right hand side

 

[The Cockatrice]

yeah, forums are not mobile friendly. design of a an old era.

 

[DeafTourette]

You made a difference, op

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Lol love theres a thread about this…

Its prob purposeful to get more clicks

 

[Kamina]

EviLore

 

[th4tguy]

My silence may have been purchased for the month but my gold is gone now and the banner is back. Based off the comments in the thread, I actually wondered if it had been addressed but it does not appear to be so.

Even if we left the banner at the top of the page, could we not space the navbar below it? Less real estate on the screen overall but still better than losing the ability to use the navbar without first interacting with an ad.

 

[th4tguy]

Lol love theres a thread about this…

Its prob purposeful to get more clicks

Maybe... probably... but you can still have the navbar visible and still do a dropdown ad like they have. The incentive for clicking the ad would be to gain more visibility of the site, without sacrificing the navbar.

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

I’m sick of seeing Stacy Solomon trying to sell me food delivered to my door.

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

I’m sick of seeing Stacy Solomon trying to sell me food delivered to my door.

 

[Synless]

Happens to me all the time, I had just accepted it.

 

[Cohetedor]

I've actually enjoyed the ads the past few weeks, I shopped for a NFL t-shirt and somehow triggered ads with hot women in sports bras and panties. I'm quite content with those inserted between posts.

 

[wondermega]

I've just reached full stockholm syndrome at this point and now sympathize with the ad server, if anything it should cover MORE of the interface!

 

[sono]

I remember this

 

[TDiddyLive]

I went on eBay for the first time in forever and got this combo of ads not even close to what I looked at, but that bottom ad has me curious…

 

[killatopak]

Yeah, it's annoying but then I get ads of sexy people and the problem seems to vanish.