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New layout? GW2 background/ad makes site look bad
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Post by
Siiw
From today, the forum looks broken in my browser. More than half of the space is taken up by huge ads on both sides, while the actual forum has shrunk into a narrow strip on the screen. The ads are so wide that they don't even fit fully on my screen, giving me a scrollbar at the bottom and long loading times. The worst thing is that the same thing also happens in Opera Mobile, and that makes the forums almost completely unreadable on the small screen.
Adding this; Clicking the "Submit" button doesn't submit the post. Instead, it produces a full-screen popup.
This is BAD. It is like watching American, ad-ridden TV channels or dodgy download site.
(edit) When reloading the forum after submitting, I get asked to download a file called "push". It never stops "loading", either. What the huh?
Post by
678294
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Post by
Sas148
I've been trying to recreate this problem unsuccessfully.
I only ever have adds on the top-right and right-side of my screen. There's a little arrow button next to the forum pages (top-right side) that pushes the forum width further out and seems to get rid of the ad on the right side.
Does that help at all?
Post by
Alkony
I saw people in General commenting about GW2 ads being the culprits. They also said any clicks on the page took them to a GW2 page. I'm thinking there's a variety of ads that may proc and the GW2 one is doing a full page overlay and messing with the page layout. I haven't been able to recreate this either, but I haven't been able to trigger a GW2 ad.
Edit: More info
here
sas
.
Post by
AlterMind
I confirm this: when trying to click on the tiny arrow button on the top-right side of the forum (or any wowhead page) frame (meant to expand the frame width from 800px to 960px), if I actually
*miss*
that button it opens a pop-up window with GW2 advertisement.
Post by
Sas148
Hmm, I haven't personally seen the GW2 ad yet. I keep refreshing and nadda. I'll keep an eye out though.
Might help if someone can take a screenshot when they have it and provide the link it sends you to when clicked.
Post by
Ossirian
I've been trying to recreate this problem unsuccessfully.
I only ever have adds on the top-right and right-side of my screen. There's a little arrow button next to the forum pages (top-right side) that pushes the forum width further out and seems to get rid of the ad on the right side.
Does that help at all?
this is pretty much how the forums look right now, even the news page looks similarly awful
http://i45.tinypic.com/2v2vzw2.jpg
the GW2 ad seems to be causing this
the frontpage which runs a RIFT ad looks fine
edit: this ones how the forums should/used to look without that ad, taken from the mop.wowhead page since that seems to be unaffected
http://i46.tinypic.com/2vjodfp.jpg
Post by
691546
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Post by
Sas148
Thank you for all the information, I will pass it along. You shouldn't have to deal with it much longer! :)(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##sas148##DELIM##
Post by
Saruya
Yes please, get it sorted. It makes the front page unusable, because it layers an invisible ad over the whole of the top half of the page, and no matter where you click it takes you to that GW2 site.
>:((##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##sas148##DELIM##
Post by
AlterMind
As far as I'm concerned, probably due to settings in Firefox or its add-ons, the launch of the "ad" doesn't open an overlay but opens a new *top* tab (GW2 as a matter of fact) wich forces me to close it each time to get back to wowhead. And this happens for every wowhead page.
Post by
Ekcim
I can confirm that the gw2 ad is indeed a fullscreen overlay on the news page.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/12654979/fullscreenad.png
Post by
Ashelia
This is affecting EU only which is why I couldn't replicate it. We're going to try to get someone in to fix it right now even though it's a Sunday, sorry guys for this ad issue and thanks for your patience.
Post by
678294
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Post by
Izichial
Geographically targeted advertising.
buy.guildwars2.com/en/intro?utm_source=NCW_ZAM&utm_medium=Banner&utm_campaign=GW2
EU
ND
Note bolded part. If the US have the same ad they presumably have a link that leads to a US specific page.
As to why it is broken only on the EU version, your guess is as good as mine.
Temporary workaround:
Use the MoP version of the site.
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691546
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719966
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Post by
Sas148
Thank you very much for fixing this, my problem (the BIG banners) is gone!
My forum has the normal size again, the garrish colors are gone
and I can open and read every post again.
That's awesome. Glad to hear it! :)
Post by
Bujin
This is affecting EU only which is why I couldn't replicate it. We're going to try to get someone in to fix it right now even though it's a Sunday, sorry guys for this ad issue and thanks for your patience.
While the issue seems to be fixed, I can attest that it was affecting at least some US (Im in California) folks as I had the issue with the HUGE (over half my screen) GW2 add that popped up from the bottom, even when I turned on add-blocking.
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