Site Issues

[Jahvon09]

The site has not been working as of late for seemingly no reason. What's been going on?

 

[SkyriseCities]

We did have server issues for a while but should be fine now. Any current issues?

 

[Suffolk 83]

We did have server issues for a while but should be fine now. Any current issues?

Been fine lately other than a month or so ago

 

[stefal]

Is this happening to anyone else? Any file size I try to post isn't converting/embedding properly. I don't think I had an issue when I was uploading 4MB photos before. This is occuring with photos 1.9-2.9MB.

 

[Blackbird]

The new whole-page ads are pretty annoying. It was easy-ish to close them on my phone, but now that I'm on my laptop I'm having a harder time seeing the X in the upper corner.

 

[HenryAlan]

The new whole-page ads are pretty annoying. It was easy-ish to close them on my phone, but now that I'm on my laptop I'm having a harder time seeing the X in the upper corner.

You can edit the URL after the ad pops up to cover everything in the page. Just delete what you see after archboston.com -- that's what I've been doing.

Edit to add:

What you delete is the following text string: "#google_vignette"

 

[kmp1284]

Ad blockers are your friends.

 

[Riverside]

Ad blockers are your friends.

I mean, yes. But. I know there are costs to maintaining ArchBoston, a service I value and appreciate. If possible, I'd like to avoid using an ad blocker, precisely because I do want to support the site -- I just find the new full-screen ads to be significantly more disruptive. Furthermore, historically @SkyriseCities has been pretty receptive to feedback, so, here's the feedback.

 

[kmp1284]

I mean, yes. But. I know there are costs to maintaining ArchBoston, a service I value and appreciate. If possible, I'd like to avoid using an ad blocker, precisely because I do want to support the site -- I just find the new full-screen ads to be significantly more disruptive. Furthermore, historically @SkyriseCities has been pretty receptive to feedback, so, here's the feedback.

Covering costs is one thing and there are better and less intrusive ways to do that but the ads are nothing but monetization for the sake of monetization and at this point it’s obvious that the user experience is secondary. Everyone has to make a living somehow but the viability of someone else’s business isn’t my concern.

 

[HenryAlan]

Generally on the side of ads being a necessary evil, so I tend not to use ad blockers. But after a week of these google vignette ads, I'm done. They interfere with my browser activities, and the work around I suggested above no longer works, because it causes the original page to reload, while at the same time marking the destination page as read. That breaks the ability for me to open the page to the first unread post. So these ads kill site functionality. I'll be installing an ad blocker in the next few days unless @SkyriseCities switches to some less problematic ad format.

 

[Riverside]

Returning to this -- the ads really are disruptive. They don't render well on mobile, meaning that the "x" close button is miniscule and hard to successfully tap on a touchscreen. @SkyriseCities, hopefully we can find a happy medium here?

 

[bigpicture7]

Returning to this -- the ads really are disruptive. They don't render well on mobile, meaning that the "x" close button is miniscule and hard to successfully tap on a touchscreen. @SkyriseCities, hopefully we can find a happy medium here?

Yes, echoing this! Many/most of us are understandable about accepting ads on the site, but a few weeks ago they switched to a new format of full page splash screen ads that need to be "x'd" out to be able to see the site. Not sure if you meant this / were aware. Feelings entirely aside about site advertising in general, there are serious user experience / site usability issues with this particular format of ad. Are there other formats that might strike a better site usability balance?

 

[stick n move]

Has anyone noticed when you paste something in a post when you click enter in the post it deletes a few previous parts of the post each time you press enter? This has been happening for a while and its pretty annoying.