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Come on, chaps.  Get your

Come on, chaps.  Get your shit in a sock.  The site’s been knackered on mobile for weeks now.  Comments won’t load on mobile version.  Switch to desktop and comments load but you get the cookie warning on every page refresh.  Really annoying. Running chrome on Android. 

CygnusX1 wrote:

@Tony Farelly – any update on this?

Desktop on mobile browser – still get the ads popup on every page refresh

Classic mobile site on smartphone – ditto

New mobile site on smartphone – can’t read or add comments

Both versions of moble site the “switch to” sidebar gets in the way

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Another PITA for me, though not in your control, is that someone has registered cdn.road.cc domain as “sports/recreation” with Symantec Blue Coat Web Filter  (but the main site is unclassified), and our company admins have seen fit to block access to sports sites, so I get a load of broken images.

Any chance you can rename your content delivery network (CDN) subdomain to something else?  😉   

That last bit’s worth knowing cos we’re going to be switching CDN in the near future. 

Adding/reading comments on the smartphone site – Marfeel who operate the smartphone site are  working on a fix (and to be fair have been for a while) and they’ve got me breathing down their neck on that.  

Classic site GDPR popup – I’ve lost patience on that one so until it’s demonstrably fixed that will be getting turned off. The reason you get the same when viewing the desktop site on a mobile is that it’s the same popup on desktop and the classic version of the site (which are the same thing) and it would seem to be a platform related bug. 

Yes, it’s a PITA – it’s the

Yes, it’s a PITA – it’s the desktop GDPR popup on the classic version of the site. The smartphone version uses a different popup and that works as it should.

The desktop version works fine on desktop but not on mobile for some reason. It’s a PITA – we’re working on a fix and if it isn’t sorted soon we’ll ask for it to be turned off until it is. Problem for us is the ad networks effectively insist on us having the popups because ad revenue drops sharply as soon as you turn the buggers off. Unfortunately though most of them seem to have some sort of issue either in the way they work or the effect they have on other bits of the site – and this isn’t just for us.

Smartphone button placement
Smartphone button placement and ‘Ads help…’ are making mobile veiwing most irritating.

dave atkinson wrote:

Whether logged in or not, clicking on the “continue to site ” only makes it go away only until clicking on a link.

is this on mobile? there does seem to be an issue with it on android/chrome at the moment. working on a fix.

Yes Dave, on mobile using safari browser on iPhone, I’ve not tried it on other platforms or browsers. We all know that websites embed cookies these days, so surely after the 1st visit the repeating message could be disabled.

I also agree with others that I’m more likely to purchase goods because of a good review on the site than an advert. Obtrusive advertising, particularly on a mobile platfom tends to make me avoid the site.