not much worse than a busy state cursor when your trying to navigate.
What's up with this?
ads ads ads..
Sunday, February 15, 2009 by vStyler | Discussion: Community
I noticed recently that I was getting a busy cursor for a lot longer when pages were loaading on WC.
Didn't take much sleuthing to realize that it was apparent ad info from googleads and adscentral that is now causing this.
Perhaps I've just been sleepsurfing for years and never noticed this but I'm pretty sure that this is a fairly recent change.
If it was happening before, the delay at least seems much longer now.
The more I surf on WC the more annoying it is becoming to me... Shouldn't WC subscribers be 'immune' to this?
not much worse than a busy state cursor when your trying to navigate. 
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Tailsgirl
Reply #2 Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:41 PM
not much worse than a busy state cursor when your trying to navigate.
Reply #2 Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:41 PM
not much worse than a busy state cursor when your trying to navigate.
There's another cursor besides busy?
......stupid post came out twice.
vStyler
Reply #4 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:25 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:25 PM
adblock wont install for me, keeps erroring out in FF... plus isn't for IE.. so so much for that.
Adblock plus did.. but it didnt help anything... besides.. shouldnt have to run 3rd party plugins imo.
ZubaZ
Reply #5 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:41 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:41 PM
I believe that the benefit to subscribers is that you won't see the ads. 
vStyler
Reply #6 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:43 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:43 PM
Actually, figured out adblock plus.. google and adcentral scripts now blocked.
Thanks for the tip Bebi 
Bebi Bulma
Reply #7 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:46 PM
Reply #7 Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:46 PM
I use adblock plus too, I block just about everything. You need to add filters to block stuff, that's probably why it hasn't helped anything. -Ha too late, got you got it worked out.
I believe that the benefit to subscribers is that you won't see the ads.
We are subscribers...but I still block *everything.* 
Zoomba
Reply #12 Monday, February 16, 2009 8:12 AM
Reply #12 Monday, February 16, 2009 8:12 AM
The ad issues will hopefully be resolved in the new WC that's being worked on currently.
Cavan1
Reply #13 Monday, February 16, 2009 11:39 AM
Reply #13 Monday, February 16, 2009 11:39 AM
Yay for adblock.
Thanks Bebi, it has made things faster. The main forum page still takes way to long to load, for me it is 10 - 15 seconds on a 5 meg ADSL.
Although my favorite is still when for no apparent reasons the whole site just goes dead for awhile.
The ad issues will hopefully be resolved in the new WC that's being worked on currently.
Hey Zoomba, will download rates from the WC galleries improve. See this thread.
Zoomba
Reply #14 Monday, February 16, 2009 12:14 PM
Reply #14 Monday, February 16, 2009 12:14 PM
Download speeds aren't a function of the website persay, more of our ISP. Efforts are being made separately to improve that.
superman
Reply #15 Monday, February 16, 2009 1:13 PM
Reply #15 Monday, February 16, 2009 1:13 PM
Skins like a bad haircut.
Still Looks More Dashing Than Internet Explorer
Cavan1
Reply #16 Monday, February 16, 2009 1:48 PM
Reply #16 Monday, February 16, 2009 1:48 PM
Efforts are being made separately to improve that.
Good to hear.
Download speeds aren't a function of the website persay, more of our ISP.
Hey Zoomba, since I don't know if you read my thread, the WC galleries are the only place I get slow downloads, everywhere else Stardock ( subscriber resources page, Impulse, SDC etc ) and the rest of the web downloads are at normal speeds as they should be for my service.
Zoomba
Reply #18 Monday, February 16, 2009 2:44 PM
Hey Zoomba, since I don't know if you read my thread, the WC galleries are the only place I get slow downloads, everywhere else Stardock ( subscriber resources page, Impulse, SDC etc ) and the rest of the web downloads are at normal speeds as they should be for my service.
Reply #18 Monday, February 16, 2009 2:44 PM
Cavan1
Hey Zoomba, since I don't know if you read my thread, the WC galleries are the only place I get slow downloads, everywhere else Stardock ( subscriber resources page, Impulse, SDC etc ) and the rest of the web downloads are at normal speeds as they should be for my service.
Those are all coming off of different servers and different data centers. The download servers for WinCustomize are the hardest hit file servers we have. Many many gigabytes per day are pulled from those systems. Because they're hit so hard, the higher the volume, the slower the transfer for individual users. We're doing some server and data center reshuffling in the near future, and that will hopefully help things considerably.
superman
Reply #20 Monday, February 16, 2009 11:37 PM
Reply #20 Monday, February 16, 2009 11:37 PM
Not when Internet Explorer is SKINNED.
Yes, but when?
Chrome too can be dressed. But then, its beautiful without them. 
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Reply #1 Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:38 PM
Yep, constant Ads for me to, I've seen it posted that it's a cache thing, but it isn't.. [I'm a delete freak hehehe, I am constantly clearing my cache
] as it's always happened to me.. before and after Subscribing.. nothing has changed.
Doesn't really bother me all that much, it's just that my lame ass ADSL is slow enough these days.