A slight irritation

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

Website looks promising but the Warco ad that keeps popping up is starting to irritate

Mick

[Anonymous]

Couldn’t agree more, you kill it then it reappears again as soon as you move to the next item. Very frustrating when using a smaller tablet or phone.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

there’s a trivial solution to this popup using firefox + noscript

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Are we seeing the same thing?

The Warco ad I see is right at the top, with some peurile slogan about “spooktacular savings”; but that is a fixed banner and easy to scroll off the screen. Well, it is on a PC; I don’t know about on a ‘phone.

It’s the side-bar ones that keep changing at about 1-second intervals, as if their designers think them not worth viewing. However, that’s not new here: the previous site, which I think was much better laid out generally, had similar rapidly-flashing ads.

It’s still a needless and very irritating gimmick though.

On the other hand the advertisements are what pay for the site; and I am more concerned with other matters with it such as the loss of our Albums.

I have just tried to ask about that but the Enquiry thing failed on two attempts without telling me what I’d done wrong! (Typical commercial web-site practice, sadly.)

 

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Warco Add pops up every time you change the page on a Phone and some tablets not on a PC screen

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

The advert appears at bottom of my tablet screen right where I am trying to read postings, no objection to  adverts by the way

Mick

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I am sorry if I misunderstood the original instruction so not spotted our albums would not only be deleted, but also not even replaced with anything similar.

I do object to that though. I assume there is some reason for it but it’s hard to see any real point, unless Mortons are being charged very high storage fees by the Internet company.

I succeeded in finding the photo eventually. I had sent it to a few people including the same friend some time last year, and it took me a lot of trawling through sent e-posts to find it, then basically forward it to myself!

Still, it meant I could clear out a lot of old e-posts no longer needed!

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I still have all the other photographs otherwise: I had copied them to the ME Forum Albums, not moved them there; but this one had come from within the Forum.

Advertisements: I do not mind them, provided relevant to model-engineering; for they fund the site and we do buy from the companies, between us. I do object when they are intrusive, such as by rapidly changing – or one site, lathes.co, being not only irrelevant but covering a lot of the real contents.

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What was the photo? Ah! Think back about 3 or 4 years now. Someone had found what looked like a circular calculator, possibly incomplete and with a copyright date (1908?) but lost maker’s name; and it had us all foxed by its peculiar numbers and fractions.

I have enquired of various potential trades: weaving, a local company still making specialist slide- and circular- rules, and organ-building. The last by asking no less than Harrison & Harrison, no less. All were intrigued but said, not known here.

So photography? My friend and his daughter are keen amateur photographers, but he said, no nothing to do with that.

Then yesterday he revealed that the daughter is very good at tracing the histories of things like old, specially-made cameras etc, so we wondered if her skills might solve this puzzle.

It’s this thing:

[IanHParticipant @ianh]

The Warco pop up that keeps appearing at the bottom of my iPad screen is a pest!

i wonder how much Warco are paying for this advert and whether we could have a whip round to buy them out 😃

Ian

[Peter SpinkParticipant @peterspink21088]

I do most of my browsing on an iPad –  the Warco pop up is not just a slight irritation, it’s a PITA!

On a constructive note, I would suggest a slightly heavier font for the whole site would make the text more pleasing and readable. Thin text on a light background is not a great choice in my opinion.

[Nigel Graham 2]

On Nigel Graham 2 Said:

… I am more concerned with other matters with it such as the loss of our Albums. I have just tried to ask about that but the Enquiry thing failed on two attempts without telling me what I’d done wrong! (Typical commercial web-site practice, sadly.)

What happened to Albums has been explained – Paul Kemp in reply to one of your posts.  And searching “Albums”  reveals other victims and replies!   For what it’s worth, although I knew how to download my Albums I decided it wasn’t worth it.  Album images aren’t useful if you already have the full resolution originals, as I do.

Not sure what went wrong with the “Enquiry thing”, by which I think you mean the contact form at the bottom of the help page?  I filled it in, and it worked, with a message that was nearly off the bottom of my screen, so maybe yours was missed.

There is a bug though: the form is supposed to send an email to the webmaster, and I think it’s misconfigured so he may not get it.  Been reported.

Thanks,

Dave

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

I saw Paul’s reply and am fairly sure I thanked him.

It seems different users see the advertisement in different ways, which must depend on the instrument used.

Warco’s is right at the top, above all else, and static on my PC. Not a pop-up as such.

The irritating ones that keep changing are those at the side.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

WRT readability I find on a regular computer by highlight the text it becomes white on blue background which is very clear. I recall the BBC computer back in ’82 used this combination based on scientific study of the best colours for most people.

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