(PENDING)Threads Jumping to Advert/Post
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Y'know those little ads you place next to a post in the forums? The little square ones that are usually about 6 posts down or something and cut the post in half (and remove the report button). Just noticed over the last week or so when I click on a thread after a few seconds my screen automatically jumps down to the post with the advert.
Most annoying
Using a Macbook Pro, safari browser if that helps.
Most annoying
Using a Macbook Pro, safari browser if that helps.
Hi Dom, I've tried to recreate but I'm struggling! So for instance it did it this morning on page 2 of the "How do you perceive Zenith" thread in the watches forum with a Scholl Inserts advert. I then went back and revisited and it didn't do it.
So it is intermittent I think.
I might be wrong, but I've also noticed it more (can't say 100% of the time) that it happens when I click on the thread and then scroll down to the last post I read (using a two finger swipe on the macbook trackpad), i.e. I scroll down and as I see the post I want to read it then jumps back to the advert.
So it is intermittent I think.
I might be wrong, but I've also noticed it more (can't say 100% of the time) that it happens when I click on the thread and then scroll down to the last post I read (using a two finger swipe on the macbook trackpad), i.e. I scroll down and as I see the post I want to read it then jumps back to the advert.
Still doing it here;
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
opened thread for the first time and immediately the screen goes to this....
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
opened thread for the first time and immediately the screen goes to this....
LaurasOtherHalf said:
jackmansfield1 said:
Hi Laurasotherhalf,
Unfortunately we cannot reproduce this error so we can't take this any further I'm afraid. I'm sorry for the inconvenience!
All the best,
Jack
have you tried a mac using safari?Unfortunately we cannot reproduce this error so we can't take this any further I'm afraid. I'm sorry for the inconvenience!
All the best,
Jack
That's fine, on a hobby forum, but this is a massive forum that drives revenue for the owners which is constructed of rather old and cobbled together software.
Not entirely defending the "there's nothing we can do" response but I suspect they probably mean "There's no way we can deploy debugging tools into the production environment to track this down because the cost of doing so and the potential impact of it going wrong is just too high compared to the impact of this relatively minor problem."
Would be nice if the ad suppliers could be pressured to do something about the bloody redirects that are trying to install malware though.
Not entirely defending the "there's nothing we can do" response but I suspect they probably mean "There's no way we can deploy debugging tools into the production environment to track this down because the cost of doing so and the potential impact of it going wrong is just too high compared to the impact of this relatively minor problem."
Would be nice if the ad suppliers could be pressured to do something about the bloody redirects that are trying to install malware though.
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