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Jim's Lab Notes — Site News, Baseball Talk, and a Bunch of Other Stuff Sunday, December 07, 2014Recent Updates and Turning off AdvertisementsAs you may have noticed, I’ve been working on the server and making some software updates. The downtime was required so I can move forward with some of the things on my off-season to-do list. I hope the outages didn’t inconvenience you too much. First up on my to-do list was setting things up so I could turn off advertising for those of you who generously donated to support the site in 2014. Although automating the process is still on my list, I have turned off advertising on accounts that donated at least $20 in the 2014. Since some of you don’t use the same email address, I had no way of associating your donation with your account for some of you. So, if you donated but still see ads, please drop me an email with the email address associated with your donation and the email address that you use with your BBTF account. I apologize for not getting around to this earlier. Hopefully, you’ll be happy seeing the site load a little faster without ads for the next year. Thanks for your support! |
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1. Infinite Yost (Voxter)I sure hope that this can be fixed. Everything else seems to work okay.
God bless you, good sir. This may be the best present I get this Christmas.
now the forums show on the front page but you cannot access
i suspect this is being fixed
jim is tinkering!!
Why I wanted to say something there is another story.
You will have to add other sites that you visit regularly and trust, but any nasty sites won't be able to run bad stuff; with practice you can also save some bandwidth and cpu cycles by excluding tracking and advertising aggregators.
Log out and log back in. Remember to log out with your left hand and log in with your right hand while facing a southwesterly direction.
Basically, there are the standard ads, which behave like they do on the PC (and are fine). But there is some sort of banner ad that shows up at the bottom. It stays at the bottom of the screen, covering up the content. When you scroll, it stays in the same place on the page until you finish scrolling, then resets to the bottom. So if it was covering up comment 2, then when you scroll it stays over comment 2 until you're done scrolling. Then goes back to the bottom.
Since the banner is over everything, it covers up content, which makes it difficult. I pretty much have to close the add with the X on every page. And even that is hard because some of the X's are really far over to the right, and they're small. Plus, if I'm zoomed in, I have to scroll to even see the X.
I love the beta site! Hope it survives the upgrade. It's a godsend for mobile readers like me.
Greg, I will take a look on my wife's iPad. Ad stuff is often tough to sort out because different ads get served to different users.
Playing around I notice the Forum Home link goes nowhere but if I grab a link to a specific discussion it seems to work.
Playing around I notice the Forum Home link goes nowhere but if I grab a link to a specific discussion it seems to work.
Actually, I wouldn't mind the ads if they were for some legitimate business, even if they were for things I'd never buy, such as diapers or pizza. But ads from whackos really disturb me...
SoSH, the edit link should time out after five minutes now.
Greg, I will send you an email.
Five? That's way too quick. I'm glad the button now disappears when the edit option is closed, but I've gotten comfortable having the full 15.
I should have mentioned that the "Preview Your Comment" tab has been working since sometime yesterday, but this is the first time I've visited this thread since then. Thanks for correcting this, Jim.
1) on my ipad
2) cleared all cookies and history
3) log in
4) can click a link inside the forums and see them fine
5) come to this very page and click "Forums" in the red bar and it goes to a blank page
Like this one for a list of the site's members: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/forums/member/memberlist
Clicking on the site's icon to get back to the main page from that page leads to this non-functioning URL: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/forums/member/{site_index}
...and so on and so forth when it comes to member lists and infrastructural type links. (Links to articles, comments, etc... seem to all be fine. Also, I'm working from the "old" interface, which likely has something to do with it.
Note: "{" should read: " % 7 B " and "}" is represented as " % 7 D ", sans spaces.
Where does the turn-off option show up - on one's My Account page?
For a long time, I had this thing where I couldn't stay logged in. I took various suggestions about clearing cookies & so forth, but nothing really worked. I was reliably signed out about every two hours, maybe less.
A few weeks (months?) ago, that stopped happening. I would be logged out if I turned off my browser, but otherwise no. In the last 48 hours or so, it's started happening again, even more frequently. I get signed out every 30-60 minutes, it seems, sometimes less.
Any ideas what might be happening? I'm using Chrome, if that helps.
Better solution, don't use IE.
No issues with Chrome or Firefox.
Thanks, but I'll let Jim decide if he wants to support IE or not.
All my browsers/software are up to date. It's quite possible it's user error but wanted to pass it along.
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