[AlsoSomniloquism]

I remember when I was a subscriber, Road.cc decided to add the auto play feature for their videos with ads on all articles which was annoying at the time. Did they remove them for subs in the end? 

Only asking as the silent videos that start advertising their videos silently stop being silent between 30 secs and a 1minute into browsing with a 30 second long Olivia Rodrygo (whoever she is) advert. Obviously a pain when doing a quick browse on a works laptop with built in speakers. Shame I can’t install Ad-blockers so less vists to road.cc is on the horizon. 

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[hawkinspeter]

quiff wrote:

quiff wrote:

It would be like being draped in a Tiffany lamp.

[HoldingOn]

Is that a good thing or a bad

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[quiff]

It would be like being draped
It would be like being draped in a Tiffany lamp.

[andystow]

Hey David, do you have a link

Hey David, do you have a link for that amazing shirt?

[Paul J]

Holy crap at that shirt! My
Holy crap at that shirt! My eyeballs are bleeding AND I’m going to have nightmares!

[David9694]

I don’t subscribe, I run

I don’t subscribe, I run Adblocker on my main device, but not on my ‘phone from which the site, like so many others, is all but unusable. 

[andystow]

I had a full screen ad on my
I had a full screen ad on my phone today right after logging back in.

[Eton Rifle]

Currently logged in as a
Currently logged in as a subscriber. Why am I bothering to pay a subscription when I STILL have to put up with annoying adverts?

[hawkinspeter]

chrisonatrike wrote:

I think it’s been gnawed away from within, possibly sapped by too many (not very well hidden) nuts.

[chrisonabike]

I think it’s been gnawed away

I think it’s been gnawed away from within, possibly sapped by too many (not very well hidden) nuts.

[Sriracha]

I get the feeling the whole
I get the feeling the whole edifice is creaking under the strain. The underpinnings of the site need a full overhaul:

Comments section doesn’t thread the posts in some long threads,

No proper integration with sister sites, can’t even copy across the comment count,

No search facility, near impossible to find older pages, no way to find one’s own previous comments (maybe not a bad thing!)

Whole site has now near-as ground to a halt, massive page load times, 502 bad gateway errors etc,

Double posts have returned, so has AJAX 504 etc, edits don’t stick, takes forever to post a comment, even to like a comment!

I’m sure there’s more.

I don’t suppose it’s easy working under the bonnet, but somebody’s go to know how.

[hawkinspeter]

HoldingOn wrote:

I really hope the site issues they have been having over the last few days isn’t down to a code change to push adverts to subscribers!

I doubt it as I’ve got my browser to ignore as many ads as possible, so that wouldn’t be slowing me down (haven’t noticed new ads appearing either).

[HoldingOn]

I really hope the site issues

I really hope the site issues they have been having over the last few days isn’t down to a code change to push adverts to subscribers!

[andystow]

Didn’t help.

Didn’t help.

[andystow]

No sound, but I’m currently

No sound, but I’m currently seeing a pop-over Go-Daddy ad about every 20 seconds despite being logged in as a subscriber. I’m going to try logging off and back on again.

[Author]

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