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Back for me, not good.
Yup. Forum basically unusable today.
Report it on the sticky, Forum Update thread
It's sticky no more as the forum is now fixed and bug-free. I'm sure no-one will mind you digging it out and bumping it back to the top though.
I’ll highlight this to Tech as adding to Forum Update thread will have the same effect, a mod will highlight the post.
Yep I had it yesterday.
But don't worry it's all fixed or your fault forgot running a very specific set of apps.
Not for me, they’re not. And haven’t been for a year or more. Not a forum or website issue if it only affects certain members. I’m not a subscriber, so don’t have a ‘P’, and I don’t use any sort of adblocking ‘ware, I just use Safari on my iPad.
I don't know how these things work, just wish they wouldn't.
But that address has singletrackworld.com in it is that a redirect through stw?
I had this happen 3 times in ~10 minutes last night on my phone (I wasn't logged in if that's any use). All 3 times I was redirected to another site inviting me to spin a spinner to see what I'd won. I've never had any redirects on any device previously and not had any on my phone this morning either.
Yeah I had it on my iPhone yesterday - could barely navigate a page without it popping up again. I gave up and went elsewhere.
I'm winning every time I open this site from my phone! Bonus is the "Congratulations" audio.
Like @CountZero I just use Safari on my iPad so no adblocker (in fact the OS & browser are so old I can't install any extensions) and don't get any popups whether logged in or not (I'm not a premium member). I'll very occasionally use my phone (iPhone 5) to browse the site and don't get popups there either.
Looking at the parameters in the above links:parm5=singletrackworld.com just tells the popup where it was invoked/called from. PulsePoint is a "programmatic advertising technology company", the "+bidder" bit is interesting as according to their website it's their bidding analytics software but I don't have it on the page as served to me.
The forum has basically been unusable on my mobile for about a week now, popups, redirects and the page jumping around as it slowly loads means I'm only accessing STW via my laptop now. Add in that it sucks huge amounts of data still - must be all the ads - means that mobile access for me is now out.
My pop up blocker just blocked 14 on one page (Salisbury thread).
Which was nice
Constant pop ups on my android phone / chrome browser. About every 3 minutes or so.
19 blocked on one page.
Love how the phrase ****ing useless **** is blocked but these pop ups aren't .
Getting endless redirects today, several per minute, forum unusable ( Samsung tablet)
Phone currently telling me 17 pop ups blocked on stw. Also browsing 2 other forum's without any issues.
Thought I'd try again, it's the only site that does this to me. Works phone so no dodgy browsing. Have a nice weekend all!
Gave up using STW yesterday because of the constant pop ups, just tried again and still getting a repetitive pop up for free phone every few seconds which my security tells me is a dodgy site. Very frustrating, can't use the forum at the moment
Spinning wheel twice on my android phone this morning (with an ad blocker).
FFS.
SORT THIS SHIT OUT.
It's bordering on unusable at the moment.
Never had them before, but pop up blocker is going over time today.
I remember a nice simple forum that just used to work, think it was called Gofar 😉
SORT THIS SHIT OUT.
It’s bordering on unusable at the moment.
Maybe on Monday. It is the weekend after all.
Yep, got hit with 25 pop ups just now, lovely
Keep getting the ''congratulations" popup for the last few days.
Doing my head in. If only my life way more interesting I'd stop visiting.
FFS!!! Literally as I was about to reply to this thread I got the "Congratulations you've won an iPhone x" redirect.
It's ridiculous. If I spend more than a few minutes on the forum I have countless pop ups blocked and eventually get the redirect website....
Oh my god, it's intolerable on android on my Nexus 5X. Every other time I open a thread and four out five times when posting I am redirected with an annoying voice saying congratulations.
And SwiftKey still doesn't work.
I might have to flounce at this rate.
Oh my god, it's intolerable on android on my Nexus 5X. Every other time I open a thread and four out five times when posting I am redirected with an annoying voice saying congratulations.
And SwiftKey still doesn't work.
I might have to flounce at this rate.
(2 attempts so far to post this)
Ironically that win came as I opened this thread along with the 20 odd blocked pop ups.
Sees to have stopped for me at the moment - Friday night it was worst, had to switch phone of as I couldnt get rid of the bloody things.
Keep getting a Samsung spin the wheel jobbie and the site is painfully slow too.
Bog standard Motorola g3.
Unusable on a Samsung S6 but no problems on the iPad.
Tis a bit daft.
Not that I'd know, I use a very secure browser, folk would be daft not to.
A suggestion for those that are getting the popups/redirects.
Clear all your cookies and browser history. This will get rid of all your log in status details for every web site you've visited on the device so not something to do if you don't want this to happen.
Now log back in to this site and no other and see if the popups return. Don't visit another site.
If they do then it's something relating to this site, if they don't then it was something to do with your web history. It may not be the same reason for each individual.
but thats bollox really ... this site should be such that irrespective of browser history, it shouldn't be setup that allows / generates pop-ups in such great number.
You come to the site from whereever, with no pop-ups previously, and then you're hit with them when visiting this site, then this site is the issue.
Plenty of other large forum / discussion sites manage to not have pop-ups without expecting users to delete their histories etc.
Whitestone,
Tried what you suggested, got a pop up again after logging in. On Android, I could have won loads of phones today, shame I do not want one, the site has become a PITA the last week or so.
Clear all your cookies and browser history. This will get rid of all your log in status details for every web site you’ve visited on the device....etc
It only happens on this site, and never happens on any of the other forums I regularly use.
So it’s a problem with this site
I don’t need to delete all my history to figure that out 🤔
Nope. Cleared cookies got to a thread before redirect . Only happens here. What is the common factor? This site. When does it happen? On this site. Might it be. ..........this site?
@fisha - you are missing the point which is to prove where the problem originates.
@highpig Thanks for trying
I don't get popups/redirects using my iPad, apparently some do. It does mainly seem to be a problem with Android.
Appears that way whitestione.
Or any of you using an Apple device, if so what, which model and which iOS?
No issues on my iPhone 5se but I have pop ups blocked in settings. I don’t get notified that one has been blocked though.
No issues on my iPhone 5se but I have pop ups blocked in settings.
Well, duh. 🤖
Just checking how things are today, got 9 pop ups blocked and a couple of redirects to a new phone within the time it takes to find this thread and moan again about not being g able to use this forum. Is anything being done to sort this out beyond telling us we're doing something wrong?
Doesn't Android have a setting to block pop-ups?
I checked my phone (iPhone 5) and I have the pop-ups blocked in settings, I'm assuming that I've also done this on the iPad. I turn everything off that I don't need or aren't essential to displaying a site, pop-ups definitely come into that category.
Is anything being done to sort this out beyond telling us we’re doing something wrong?
STW responding to user feedback? Have you taken leave of your senses?
I get around 9 popups blocked on this site on every other visit or so - android blocks the popups but notifies me of there creation.
This has been since the new site build so assuming it's an issue with that.
20 blocked! A new record for me.
I think 25 is the current highest overall.
Yup had 25 or so blocked today - on Android as above only here 😒
It is ****ing diabolical and I barely use the site on mobile now.
Maybe not just me, looking at how much traffic has dropped.
I tend to log on and get a few minutes before I start getting swamped, and yep on a android phone. There is no other website that causes this issue, just STW. I'm not offay with what causes this issue, but I can't fathom why STW just doesn't do what every other website I use does and stop it!
And with that I'm off again....
Several popups blocked and two redirects in less than 5 mins.
Another ****ing one on the return to chat page. ****ing ridiculous. Ficking stupid state on affairs.
redirected 5 times to ( not pop ups but full redirects taking me to another site that then tries to hijack the phone) in a 3 hr train journey. Each time very difficult to get rid of the redirect.
I really think STW are in a real bad place over this. Traffic dropping so they cannot afford to turn of any ad networks or they go bust but the ads are causing more folk to reduce their posting.
I think we the content creators without whom there would be a vastly reduced income to STW are being treated with contempt
I think we the content creators without whom there would be a vastly reduced income to STW are being treated with contempt
Just so long as you're not a customer 😀
Getting swamped with redirection ads when browsing on my Nexus tablet that are often stopping me from going back to a thread, to the point where I'm going to stop visiting STW on it, but fine on my PC.
I feel like I'm possibly missing out on something here, although I do have pop-ups blocked in my browser settings (iPad safari).
dont all browsers have this function/option? Having a counter seems a bit strange unless there's a hidden victim league championship going on, in which case I'm probably not missing anything 😃
Android has a counter. Maybe an indicator to how dodgy the site is.
Almost got to read half a page before 6 pop ups blocked and the free phone redirect. STW continues unusable then, gonna give up even trying soon.
AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH
Not saying there isn’t an issue as clearly something is up but neither my iPhone or iPad has pop up blocked even when logged out I don’t get them. Funny thing is I do on some newspaper website and others.
My phone has just gone absolutely mental.....on this site alone. What a shit show.
Was using Chrome on Android and it was a constant issue, since moving to Another Browser, I've no issues at all...
Not saying there isn’t an issue as clearly something is up but neither my iPhone or iPad has pop up blocked even when logged out I don’t get them. Funny thing is I do on some newspaper website and others.
Everyone else on this thread, self included, ONLY have this problem with this site. One user even had a porn pop up while browsing in a public place. This has been going on for quite a while now and yet nothing, nothing* has been said by way of apology/remedy/explanation. See also the Forum Update thread.
*Yes, I know, the mods have been wearily, thanklessly trying to paper over the cracks.
I’m aware of that Captain cheers.
the silence is reading tho 🙈🙉🙊
A digital sub is £15.
Nothing of note to add, so removed it
A digital sub is £15.
But everyone already contributes by being the market advertisers pay for and by freely contributing content that is subsequently used to drive more readers.
And the £15 Is for a magazine that many don't read. The forum Is, apparently, merely coincidental to that.
Go on Jimjam, flounce, please. Sadly it's the reasonable, balanced folk who are leaving whilst the determined ban dodgers, conspiracy theorists, trolls, deluded, disgraced, water-off-duck's-back Internet warriors have the will to fight on.
*sings "Into the valley..."*
I've done my bit to keep the posting rate up to today, I've felt poorly. I'm feeling better this eveing though so can't be counted on tomorrow - do something Mark, Chips and Co., this is all feeling a bit Bikemagic.
Android and chrome, same issues as everyone else. SwiftKey has never worked. The site is the worst written I've ever been a part of. I just don't understand it when it was excellent before and was the site I used the most.
I used to get occasional, but regular, popups prior to the site rebrand.
In the last day or two, things have gone ballistic - surprised I was able to make this post.
(Android, BTW)
Edukator
Go on Jimjam, flounce, please. Sadly it’s the reasonable, balanced folk who are leaving whilst the determined ban dodgers, conspiracy theorists, trolls, deluded, disgraced, water-off-duck’s-back Internet warriors have the will to fight on.
*sings “Into the valley…”*
I’ve done my bit to keep the posting rate up to today, I’ve felt poorly. I’m feeling better this eveing though so can’t be counted on tomorrow – do something Mark, Chips and Co., this is all feeling a bit Bikemagic.
Pardon?
Walmart redirects now.
Incredibly slow and full of crap, I visit less and less.