jjbomber said:
steve_1979 said:
While we're having a forum b*tch fest I'd also like to add that I hate the way the advert at the top of the page loads last. On a phone/tablet when a try to click on a thread the whole page suddenly jumps down and I end up selecting the wrong thread. It's really annoying!
That's the whole idea. You accidently click on an advert and the website gets paid. Forums exist to make money from advertisers, nothing else. Clicking through on adverts, whether intentional or not, generates revenue.
I suspect that's not true - in the previous versions of the website we spent a deal of time making sure adverts were put into presized placeholders so that the page didn't jump about.
Of course, things have moved on a bit with variable ad sizes so it's quite difficult to do now, when the site itself doesn't know what size of advert is going to be served when the page is rendered (ads tend to be served last).