Audiogon has gone too far, too fast with the ads!!!

You have to back up your work, like in the 90s!

There must be tractor forums out there running more sophisticated software than Audiogon.

Have you ever been logged in, typed a forum thread response, then clicked "post" only to be prompted to relog-in to Audiogon?  Of course, once you do log-in again, your post is now in the ether.

@mitch2  Yes, but that was less frequent than my post just disappearing due to a page refresh that seemed to happen every five minutes or so but is still very annoying.  But, to be fair, I’ve been happily using Brave Browser and the login thing happens there too although not all that frequently.  What happens more often is when I click “post” I’m redirected to verify I’m human, which often is fine but if enough time has passed while on one page I’ll get an “Oops” message and lose my post.  So as @devinplombier mentioned (Ha! BTW) I still copy my responses before hitting “post” just as a precaution, but overall the experience on Brave has been revelatory coming from the disaster I was experiencing previously.
 

All that said, I just briefly went back to A’gon using my other browser (Safari) and noticed they’ve removed the ads on the right border and just the ones on the top and bottom were still there, so it appears they’ve done something and the site did seem to be working faster during the short time I was there.  I’ll try posting some responses there to see if the dreaded “refresh monster” is still at work, and if it is I’ll be outta there again cause I’m not putting up with that crap anymore — absolutely intolerable and inexcusable.  I’m also gonna recommend they look into reducing the frequency of us having to verify we’re human — I know that’s important to avoid the previous Bot disaster so am fine with it, but it seems to happen more frequently than may be necessary to be effective and is likewise disruptive and very annoying when it ends up erasing a response in progress.  In any event, it appears A’gon has made good on their word and has at least done something to try to fix it, which is much appreciated, but time will tell.
 

@mitch2 

Can  you please send your comments and screenshots to [email protected].

Please include as much info as possible so their Developers can review and fix it..  Obviously, this should not be happening.   Thanks. 

BTW, I have switched to the Brave  Browser and everything is working   

Incidentally, have y'all noticed the ad content? Sometimes it's like... "Comfy shoes older men love" or whatever. Can Franklin Mint be far behind? 

I agree all, it is better than it was, which is probably why I did not type out first in word and then copy and paste.

@hgeifman - there is nothing much to show.  I finished the post, clicked "Post Your Response" and it immediately went to a log-in page.  I was for sure logged in when I started typing because just a minute or so before I tried to post, I had refreshed my "Activity Feed for Mitch2" page.

Things clearly are not what they used to be but I also get that Audiogon needs the income from the ads, and that there is a much higher level of security necessary to operate a site like this than previously.