----------------------------------- Dan Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:13 pm slow loading ads ----------------------------------- well as some may have notcied i have added an ad to the site in the footer. this is an effor to rase some money to get compsci.ca even better host and such. i have notcied that it tends to take some time to load, but it is not intrefining with the loading of the acual site. dont have to click on it sice it is pay for view, just let it site down there and hopfully give us some money to get a faster host. if you notcie the ad doing any evil things like pop-ups tell me, it should not tho but u never know with thess evil ad poleop. ----------------------------------- Dan Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:32 am ----------------------------------- there have been reports that the ad is making browsers "jump" to the bottom of the page. if u are geting this plz post. ----------------------------------- recneps Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:32 am ----------------------------------- It is indeed annoying, as when you go to post, it "clicks" when it finishes loading, and you gotta click in textbox again to post. And my browser "jumped" once. ----------------------------------- Dan Mon Jan 26, 2004 12:13 pm ----------------------------------- hummm, well i will probly remove it then. are there any non-evil adds? ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:28 pm ----------------------------------- are there any non-evil adds? no... :? ----------------------------------- Maverick Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:50 pm ----------------------------------- Well If its making you some money to get a faster server or w/e i think we can endure it for a little bit. ----------------------------------- Amailer Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:47 pm ----------------------------------- ah ha, i knew it was 2 good to be true dan :twisted: well hmm no ideas for non-evil ads here... :? ----------------------------------- jonos Mon Jan 26, 2004 5:39 pm ----------------------------------- I don't even see any adds... Maybe Dan removed them. ----------------------------------- the_short1 Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:00 pm ----------------------------------- yea me neither... as long as it not a pop up... Go ahead... a better server would ROCK...!!! good job for the initiative to make CASH!!... Is there a donate button on site??? if not should have a pay pall one... ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:11 pm ----------------------------------- i removed it, to evil. alougth we did make $0.11 for having them up for 1/2 a day, lol ----------------------------------- Andy Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:33 pm ----------------------------------- no leave it on, you guys can make millions, well maybe not millions hundreds ----------------------------------- McKenzie Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:36 pm ----------------------------------- The question is will new host + ads be faster than current host + no ads ----------------------------------- shorthair Tue Jan 27, 2004 5:37 pm ----------------------------------- if you guys made 11 cents that day , i have no problem having an add , id rather see you guys get some coin and have a pop up now an them or have it appear at hte bottom of the screen when it loads , its all about the greater common good , suffer now , enjoy later ----------------------------------- AsianSensation Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:12 pm ----------------------------------- yeah, i wouldn't mind pop-ups, look at sosmath.com, they have pop-ups everywhere, but their forum is still very much active. I'm sure we wouldn't mind if Dan made some money from ads, it's compensation for dealing with all those spammers and fixing the bugs and whatnot. ----------------------------------- Dan Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:20 pm ----------------------------------- well i whould never put pop ups on the site b/c i think they a evil. if i find an add that dose not slow down the site i may put it in the footer or somting. but for now it looks like it will be add free and i will just hope we dont go over banwith limits. so far compsci.ca has used 8796.43 Megabytes this month alone. ----------------------------------- shorthair Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:56 am ----------------------------------- Dan set up a donations account , il be the first to make a 5$ donation , * Promises Dan with virtual Handshake* , just stick it on the main page , like a paypal one , or i can email the money to you ( TD banks way of wiring money , its pretty cool ive used it before ) ----------------------------------- Amailer Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:16 am ----------------------------------- donations never work...might for the first 2 days its up :S ----------------------------------- shorthair Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:21 am ----------------------------------- well somthing has to keep compsci afloat on the big blue ses of webspace , and if we cant all agree on ads , ( i maen look at hte bandwidth usage ) compsci , is becoming a big site , just from december - january ( the time ive been here ) it has jumped and become bigger and bigger , unless holtsoft wants to pay for this site , Compsci needs a little boost , ----------------------------------- Dan Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:24 am ----------------------------------- well i will see how it gose, worst case is that it will just be down last few days of the month and kind of slow some times. but it will not be that bad, we just did not expeteded for the site to grow so fast. we get an amzaing amout to page hits, it is in the millions per month. ----------------------------------- the_short1 Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:02 pm ----------------------------------- yea a fast loading ad at bottom is better then crapy pop ups.... Having Paypal on front page is a great idea, I sugested it in my previous post didn;t I? anyway....Holtsoft should be giving you guys money... or maybe some help of some kind...and if people took off their signatures if they have more then one post in a forum.... it would load faster....ie show signature on first post... remove on all others.. ----------------------------------- Amailer Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:45 pm ----------------------------------- err the sig thing is weird. But you could limit the size of the sig (in KB or bytes or w/e) and it's width and height. RULES PEOPLE RULES! ----------------------------------- shorthair Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:47 pm ----------------------------------- Compsci has Fake Rules , Liek when you choose you avatar , there are no actual limitations , but most people play by thee rules, its not that often we see huge avatars , and gazilions of smilies ----------------------------------- Amailer Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:09 pm ----------------------------------- there is non..you just follow them and put it below the size limit that we KEEPED. Else we will remove it ;D I like phpBB RULES can't we just use them?