Yep, and these ones too.Does anyone get this window ?
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Probably comes up with the adblocker on, which I didn't put on my chrome browser, maybe my IT son did early on as a favour to me.
This window comes up spontaneously, sometimes it might be 20 seconds between them appearing, or other times up to a minute or so.
The window must be closed to do anything on the site.
It's definitely a turn off.
Post #7Yep, and these ones too.
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I understand what you're saying, but I'm among the people who don't believe any internet forum provides enough value for me to actively pay for it. I jump on every now and then and have a look around - that's it.In my humble opinion, the ads need to be a little annoying, otherwise there is little value for paid members. Having said that, if there is something that we can do for paid members to increase the value of the membership, happy to look at that as well. The ads though, are by far the bigger revenue generator compared to memberships.
Even YouTube provides incentive for the paid service - you get to save videos to view offline and continue playing in the background / while screen is turned off or locked on mobile devices.I understand what you're saying, but I'm among the people who don't believe any internet forum provides enough value for me to actively pay for it. I jump on every now and then and have a look around - that's it.
Annoying ads won't drive a user like me to pay for the site - they'll drive me to use an ad blocker (which I do because the ads are so often obnoxious). I'm happy to set an adblock exception for sites that have ads that don't impact on my user experience, but the second they make viewing the page more difficult, or make a sound, or play video, either they're out or I am.
In general the best way to get a user to pay for a service is to incentivise that payment; disincentivising via ads, popups etc. rarely works unless you have a monopoly (e.g. YouTube).
And that content comes from the user's. It works both ways. I don't pay for the site, but then I don't get paid for any knowledge or advice I give out to the community. And there are people on here who help out a lot.Fortunately the site has great content.
So you think that making a site ugly with adds blocking the screen to get people to pay a $20.00 membership fee is a great business model? Having a 15 second load time when google says that 50% of viewers leave a site if it is not active after 3 seconds makes sense? Not properly using SEO to get the full benefit of the content makes sense? Having security issues in the web server setup makes sense?How petty are some people? "Patriot - spend money to fix my ugly ads, but don't expect me to help you. You can go to hell financially"
Guys I am sure it's a pain. Keep in mind one person sets up, runs and funds this site as a side gig. That benefits thousands of us. He has to fix issues by himself in his spare time because of the costs involved.
We see people with $60,000 - $150,000 vehicles who are posting on threads every day also complaining about ads. Lots of 'well known' member status people too.IF that's you, stop bitchin and cough up $20
For 5 cents a day, or a few beers a year, you can get rid of all the ads and support this site. I also see people posting about how we should support xx yy and they won't even support this site.
You know what. Pay the measly $20 a year, then James can get some assistance to fix the site and it will grow. That way we all benefit. Adblockers only smoke the situation worse.
One day James will say "enough is enough - this thing costs me too much money and time - screw it, I'm shutting it down.
The same people who don't pay $20 will bitch about James shutting the site down.
If enough people do the right thing we may even get the tracks back. LOL
How many websites do you visit on a regular basis? How many of those do you pay to visit?How petty are some people? "Patriot - spend money to fix my ugly ads, but don't expect me to help you. You can go to hell financially"
Guys I am sure it's a pain. Keep in mind one person sets up, runs and funds this site as a side gig. That benefits thousands of us. He has to fix issues by himself in his spare time because of the costs involved.
We see people with $60,000 - $150,000 vehicles who are posting on threads every day also complaining about ads. Lots of 'well known' member status people too.IF that's you, stop bitchin and cough up $20
For 5 cents a day, or a few beers a year, you can get rid of all the ads and support this site. I also see people posting about how we should support xx yy and they won't even support this site.
You know what. Pay the measly $20 a year, then James can get some assistance to fix the site and it will grow. That way we all benefit. Adblockers only smoke the situation worse.
One day James will say "enough is enough - this thing costs me too much money and time - screw it, I'm shutting it down.
The same people who don't pay $20 will bitch about James shutting the site down.
If enough people do the right thing we may even get the tracks back. LOL
I pay for 2 forums Warby. I dunno how may I visit, but this would be one of the top 2 or 3. One, EO is a commercial site. I only pay for that because they have great tracks ( hint hint James) that you have to be a member to get. And I pay for this site. I'd also pay for IH8MUD, LCOOL and Track Trailer forums if they had the option.How many websites do you visit on a regular basis? How many of those do you pay to visit?