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Seriously, what's with the adverts on that website? I get a pop-under, multiple flash banners, and in general it slows my work PC to a crawl. I can imagine thi

by EwanToo 14y ago

Seriously, what's with the adverts on that website? I get a pop-under, multiple flash banners, and in general it slows my work PC to a crawl. I can imagine this guy is making more money from adverts than from freelancing...

ashray 14y ago
Author here. Really ? :( I didn't think the ads were intrusive because they're set to not run any popups. That website doesn't make any money, well, it makes like 20 cents a day but I don't think that counts.. :S I remember there was a post on HN a few weeks ago about how devs using macs is causing serious usability issues. I think I just got bitten by that :S I'll try and boot up Virtualbox and look into it. Sorry for the bad ads.
- markyc 14y ago
  popup on linux also. is 20 cents/day really worth the ux mess?
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  - ashray 14y ago
    No it's not and I would fix that given the chance. I just wish people wouldn't flag this down. Infact, it should be fixed now.
    - ersii 14y ago
      I just opened and read the piece on your site, I did not find the ads intrusive (any more, perhaps?) nor did I get a pop-up/pop-under advertisement. But, the site is still massively resourceful - Firefox, at least, is having massive troubles rendering the site. Scrolling is really painful - smoothly with a scrollwheel or with up/down keys. I havn't tried to debug the site, but I thought the above might be of interest to you anyhow. I'm on Firefox 13.0.1, running Ubuntu on a Intel i5 first-gen.
- nodrama 14y ago
  I only got the popup the first time. Win7.
- EwanToo 14y ago
  Now you've toned down the ads a bit, I've given this an upvote, but I suspect it's too late for this submission.
xiaoma 14y ago
I flagged it for just that reason. I don't come to HN to get directed to forced dialogue boxes and pop-ups, and leaving junk like this up is a disservice to everyone.
- ashray 14y ago
  Well, I would think that allowing me to fix the issue would be nicer so that everyone can actually benefit from a potentially useful/inspiring article. But hey, sorry you had to look at a popup.

by EwanToo 14y ago

ashray 14y ago

Author here. Really ? :( I didn't think the ads were intrusive because they're set to not run any popups. That website doesn't make any money, well, it makes like 20 cents a day but I don't think that counts.. :S I remember there was a post on HN a few weeks ago about how devs using macs is causing serious usability issues. I think I just got bitten by that :S I'll try and boot up Virtualbox and look into it. Sorry for the bad ads.

markyc 14y ago
popup on linux also. is 20 cents/day really worth the ux mess?
- deleted 14y ago
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- ashray 14y ago
  No it's not and I would fix that given the chance. I just wish people wouldn't flag this down. Infact, it should be fixed now.
  - ersii 14y ago
    I just opened and read the piece on your site, I did not find the ads intrusive (any more, perhaps?) nor did I get a pop-up/pop-under advertisement. But, the site is still massively resourceful - Firefox, at least, is having massive troubles rendering the site. Scrolling is really painful - smoothly with a scrollwheel or with up/down keys. I havn't tried to debug the site, but I thought the above might be of interest to you anyhow. I'm on Firefox 13.0.1, running Ubuntu on a Intel i5 first-gen.
nodrama 14y ago
I only got the popup the first time. Win7.
EwanToo 14y ago
Now you've toned down the ads a bit, I've given this an upvote, but I suspect it's too late for this submission.

xiaoma 14y ago

I flagged it for just that reason. I don't come to HN to get directed to forced dialogue boxes and pop-ups, and leaving junk like this up is a disservice to everyone.

ashray 14y ago
Well, I would think that allowing me to fix the issue would be nicer so that everyone can actually benefit from a potentially useful/inspiring article. But hey, sorry you had to look at a popup.