Changes to Advertising on the site

The advertisement is covering the other advertisement..

Thanks - it does seems to help a little on Safari on IOS - catches a few more than AddBlocker Pro

- adverts still there but don't keep popping up covering half of screen like a 1990s visit to geocities

..But doesn't appear to do anything at all for Chrome on IOS :( I've always preferred Chrome over Safari

So is this how it all ends?

Over fcking ads...

Seriously folks. Just download Brave and use it just for Boards.

It's fixed everything for me (android). I even have a shortcut to boards on home screen. One click and I'm in with no adds.

Honestly, I don't want boards to die.

Just do this, it only takes a couple of minutes.

The adverts on the bottom of the site are making it impossible to navigate even blocking usability - on android phone. Its BS!

If that's the only solution then boards is dead. If your business model is either forcing people to use ad blocking browsers or simply stop using the site, then how can the business keep going?

It's a joke.

Perhaps it won't save boards.

But, if people wish to stay on Boards for now, rather than complain about the ads, just download the browser. It is an option, rather than just leaving or enduring the ads. It seems rather stubborn not to.

It doesn't take away from the fact that Boards seems to be in self destruct mode. It can't be easy for what staff remain to be dealing with this shltshow!

If people just did this simple step, it might stem the hemorrhaging of users that appears to be going on. Perhaps a stopgap while boards rethinks stuff and comes up with a survival plan.

It isn't difficult or very time consuming.

Thanks for the Brave recommendation. No ads and a proper dark mode!

The cynic in me is beginning to suspect this is deliberate in order to artificially inflate their click-through rates.

How so?

Default browser remain and can be used or...

Settings>>Apps>> select Choose default apps (android, similar for apple)

I'd say better to complain and point out how incompetent this is. Clearly someone has approved this and thought it was a good idea.

Used to be super easy to use. Functional, easy on the eye, easy to dip in and out. But management made a complete and utter balls of the 'update' or 'upgrade' and it's frankly a horrible looking and horribly to use piece of crap.

It's felt for a long while now that the end of boards is nigh, and shite like the new ads are the final nails in the coffin. My only hope is that they at least offer the site and its archive up for sale to someone or an organisation who can rescue it.

Even still - it has been pointed out a few times in this thread how unusable this is, going back weeks. And they still can't fix it. That is equally worrying.

I'd love to know what the financial picture is tbh.

Everything under taken over the last two years has been a cost cutting excercise.

Apart from a few comments in this thread there's been radio silence from boards. I'm not blaming the employee themselves - feels like a very thankless task. But all the while people are queueing up here talking about how broken the site is from a user's perspective, along with screenshots showing how utterly comically bad the UX is at the moment.

It makes me wonder is boards actually done? Is the financial picture so grave that keeping these crap and irritating ads going is worth more than having a userbase in a meaningful sense.

I'm certainly no expert on development but I have worked a bit in IT and in my experience even minor changes to sites are supposed to be QA'ed before they go live. Something that is such a pile of crap as this current ad set up here would never be allowed fly . It's truly a bizarre set-up, unless it's actually intentional. There's no way anyone in their right mind could have okayed this. And considering it seems to be taking so long to be rectified, it makes me think that boards isn't a big priority for whoever they've outsourced the work too - which makes me wonder again about the financial situation of the whole thing.

I love Boards and hope it survives as the little parts of the world I enjoy have some good discussions here (gaming, rugby, gigs) and have had for years, but the reality is that there a few core posters in most of the threads that I use that keep the threads going these days and if they're driven away by this godawful UI, these threads will dry up and die.

The fact that there are critical issues with this site that sit unfixed for days with complete radio silence is utterly bewildering and bizarre and would genuinely have you asking where the good governance is anymore. I've no doubt that the employees are doing their best but there is some serious sailing close to the sun that Boards (as an entity) is doing that if the site goes under, it will not be a surprise.