Audiogon has gone too far, too fast with the ads!!!
I enjoy this site and completely understand and support their monetizing it more with ads, but it’s gone too far, too fast IMHO. First it ran far too slowly, which they thankfully have improved, but we’re still left with ads popping up all over the place to the point of being overly intrusive, distracting, and annoying at least in my experience. Past that, and even worse, if I try to post a response longer than a few sentences the site often refreshes and I lose what I’ve written, and that’s even with me proactively saving it as I’m typing (it happened twice while I typed this!!!) — this rarely happened before the advertising deluge. I just wish they’d back it off a bit at least until they can work out whatever limitations are causing these frequent and very frustrating issues. Or maybe it’s just me?
Trying to enter text is like a ticking time bomb with no way to predict when the page will reset losing the text. Reset twice yesterday losing text, sigh. Very strange that the Admin hasn’t addressed this issue. Very frustrating poor implementation that other forums don’t suffer. It should be fixable or reimplement a better solution vs trying to patch a poor system. |
Addressing intermittent issues that are likely confined to certain specific browser / OS / settings combinations is tough. I’m sure they’re trying. It looks like experiences vary. In my case, on my Pixel with Brave, everything is 100% clean - no ads, no problems. On my Windows laptop, it’s all 100% clean with Brave. With Firefox I do see a ton of ads. They’re totally irritating and they jump around in an obtrusive way that suggests haphazard / unstable implementation. But, I never experience any random page resets. What does happen - regardless of browser / OS - is me being signed out randomly while I’m in the middle of editing a post. I know when I’ve been signed out, because the page freezes when I touch Post. If that happens don’t refresh! Just do Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+C to save your post to the clipboard. Then refresh the page; it’ll ask you to sign in, and you can Ctrl-V to paste your saved post in the text box.
No argument here. |
@hgeifman You Da Man!!! I deleted and reinstalled Brave as per your suggestion and all is well again (at least for now), and I’m once again out of Audiogon HELL! |
