Changes to Advertising on the site

I wonder do the advertisers know how their adds are being used or are they just told there is alot of traffic to your site so we that you pay are doing a good job.

The bottom picture is from using brave browsers for this site and no adds.

Don't forget to use the dark appearance in the options as well

Can ask why dark appearance.?

Also while trying to post this I got this adds in the way to post.

That fcuking add that comes up from the bottom of the page is a bollox of a job, can't even get rid of it fully

Maybe try this.

Can I just pay to have them removed? How much would it cost? Can you calculate how much ad revenue my account has generated? I’d be happy to pay that much at least and perhaps add a bit more.

We did have that before. Iirc it was €50 per year for membership which gave you no ads, and access to forums like sex and sexuality. All mods were full members as a perk.

Bottom and not popping up the screen for me any more, has changed in the last hour.

Edit: back again, but less frequent than the every page load they had been recently.

Edit 2: back to the same crap, every page load.

Any update on this @Boards.ie: Mike ? its been nearly 2 days since you posted.

You will notice that the right hand side of the ad is cut off. not only is the ad taking up half screen it isn't even properly formatted properly. An omnishambles you might say.

Are all these very intrusive ads really the only way to keep boards afloat? They are ruining the experience for the people who haven't yet succumbed to an adblocker. I think it'd be helpful at this point to open up a thread where users and yourself/Odhran discuss other ways to keep the money coming in.

40% of the reading space in the UI (that is, when that reading space is not held up with an in-line ad within a thread then it's 95%) on iOS/Safari taken up by an advert that keeps popping up even if you hit X and you can't fully X it out, the X just stays there grayed out as if to say '**** you, navigate somewhere else.'

Then after a few seconds it refreshes and pops back up again.

Great motivator for adblockers.

With the new big ads, the ad revenue might even go down because who is going to click on the ads when you only see a picture and have no idea what it is about.

They don't even have to disable them. Just revert to the configuration before the full page pop-up ads started three weeks ago.

• In 414 days, this discussion had 300 posts, leading up to 2023-04-28, which was when the first post about the full page pop-up ads was made (and most of the complaints in those posts related to the content of ads, rather than the positioning)
• In the 21 days since then, there have been 148 posts, almost all compaints about the positioning

The changes should have been rolled back within a couple of days at most of the full page ads. That it's already been three weeks, gotten worse, and we're heading into another weekend with no improvement, just goes to show that there's effectively no-one at the helm. That's not a dig at Mike, they've clearly been handed an Uno deck and told to lay out a game of solitaire. It's management that are the problem.

In hindsight, it's pretty clear what the business plan was when Boards was most recently purchased: Boards has decent revenue levels, but high operating costs - get the costs down (hello Vanilla), and we can keep the revenue. It's not an uncommon business plan, but in Boards' case, they completely ignored the underlying product. Boards exists almost entirely on the goodwill of its users. You try to cut off the bits of Boards that aren't convenient, you risk losing the goodwill, and suddenly you're "just another" social media site, and a small Irish site can't meaningfully compete with the giants.

Boards was monetizable, but it required significant investment to actually capitalise on its strengths, grow it further (or at least back to its old levels), while keeping costs under control and then slowly reducing them. Coming in and wielding the axe was never going to work