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It's not quite fixed. All edits made at the current time (15:25 as of writing) are being placed lower down RecentChanges than the top edits, the latest of which is at 15:47. <font face="Marker Felt">[[User:Rtzxy|<span style="color:goldenrod;">Rtzxy</span>]] [[File:Reflect.jpg|20px]] [[User talk:Rtzxy|<span style="color:limegreen;">''Reflect!''</span>]]</font> 15:26, 6 January 2015 (EST) | It's not quite fixed. All edits made at the current time (15:25 as of writing) are being placed lower down RecentChanges than the top edits, the latest of which is at 15:47. <font face="Marker Felt">[[User:Rtzxy|<span style="color:goldenrod;">Rtzxy</span>]] [[File:Reflect.jpg|20px]] [[User talk:Rtzxy|<span style="color:limegreen;">''Reflect!''</span>]]</font> 15:26, 6 January 2015 (EST) | ||
:There's nothing that can be done about that, and it's not a major problem (it'll be irrelevant once those edits are old enough to not appear). [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Undirigible 15:28, 6 January 2015 (EST) | :There's nothing that can be done about that, and it's not a major problem (it'll be irrelevant once those edits are old enough to not appear). [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Undirigible 15:28, 6 January 2015 (EST) | ||
== VERY problematic ads - site is basically unusable for guests == | |||
I a bringing this up because this issue makes me outraged as an internet user. | |||
This is in regards to the "Large" ads that show up at the bottom of every medium to large page on this site. If a page (ANY page) isn't extremely short, then the ad space at the bottom will load in two large "square" shaped ads, and these ads are always ridiculously heavy on memory usage. "Video Ads". I am not talking about ads that have animation, or those banner ads that have a video in them where you can "click to replay with sound". No, these are literally just video players and they load in a VERY high-quality, full-length video that eats up all of the browser's memory and causes the page to lag so badly that it's as if the user were using dial-up! | |||
I will provide you a more specific example, but please keep in mind that this is just one example and this problem extends across all large pages. On a large page such as http://www.ssbwiki.com/Music_%28SSBB%29 it is nearly impossible to navigate the page because, directly below the infoboxes at the very bottom, there is a "table" element with two "iframe" elements inside of it. The id of one of these iframes is "sovrn_ad_unit_267940_async". This element is almost always a high-quality video that deals with either fashion or health on some unidentifiable flash video player. The videos feature logos that say "FashionTheater" and "HealthTheater", respectively. Clicking on these ads does nothing except pause the video; they do NOT take you to any advertisers webpage. I can tell that this ad is causing the immense lag because as soon as I delete the table element from the page, the lag disappears ENTIRELY. | |||
On this particular page load, BOTH of the ads at the bottom resulted in this problematic ad. That's TWO INCREDIBLY HIGH-QUALITY VIDEOS PLAYING AT ONCE. Scrolling the page was nearly impossible. It took me TEN MINUTES to get this information because that's how slow the page was. This will happen on ANY page unless it is very short in length. | |||
I see now that this still occurs if I have made an account, unlike some other wikis. This is a huge HUGE punishment for users of this site. What if someone is playing a Smash Bros. game and they want to look up some information really quickly here? They're going to be hit with this HUGE drop in performance, and then they will probably never come back to this site ever again. This is a huge problem for the hundreds users who stop by your site. | |||
I was told previously that "video ads are a thing that cannot be avoided". This is absolutely, 100% untrue. This and other MediaWiki sites are the ONLY website I have EVER seen that has these kinds of high-quality video ads. I peruse the internet quite a bit, and there are some ridiculous and annoying ads on some of the biggest sites out there, but not a single one employs auto-play High-quality flash video play objects like this. I have contacted plenty of other websites to let them know that a bad ad was hampering my experience, and they have all promptly fixed the issue. | |||
If you need further proof of how bad my browsing experiences are, I would be willing to film a video of the problems and provide this for you, but I don't think it needs to come to that. | |||
Remember, I am absolutely not asking you to stop displaying ads. I support the use of ads, which is why I do not ever use adblocker. But these need to go. These aren't even ads because users cannot click on them to be taken anywhere; they are literally just tiny, high-quality flash video players. I highly encourage you to find out where they are coming from and remove them or replace them with something else. | |||
[[User:Shadow2|Shadow2]] ([[User talk:Shadow2|talk]]) 16:21, 8 June 2015 (EDT) | |||
