Pop-up for digital.

[Frank DolmanParticipant @frankdolman72357]

[Frank DolmanParticipant @frankdolman72357]

     I have just read six forum posts and so have been afflicted

   with six views of our own pop-up.  We are supposed to be all

   on the same side.  Once would be enough.  Shut it.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

I have just had my first popup.

I have not had any more so winder if it is because you don’t have cookies enabled.

regards David

 

[Kenny HurnParticipant @kennyhurn]

I totaly agree Frank. If they held back abit on the advertising maybe the site would be usable rather than creeping along like gerry hatrick. I find that I’m coming back less and less. I took subsciption to digital first copies from the start and have just managed to glance through most of them but it is a slow and painful process. If you want to print an article the quality is so variable you don’t know whether it will be readable. I was thinking about a sub for the magazine but with a huge pointless series on pretty 3D, a little box to tell us what is in the articles (the powers that be think we havent the skill to just glance through and see for ourselves?) and a ref: box at the end with the usual favourite advertisers it’s just turned into a money grubbing exersize like this web site.

Sorry about the rant but this could be so good with a little less sell.

 

Kenny

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

The little box with the article has been done after several readers requested it.

We have always pointed at advertisers at the end of an article.

Juist because we put a box round it does not mean we get paid for it.

The 3D series has finished although a few corrections may be added later.

I continually try to improve the magazine.

 

regards David

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

I have popups disabled but I still got one.

regards David

 

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

Just got another popup.

Will talk to management.

regards David

 

[DMBParticipant @dmb]

I get that pop-up every time I try to view posts. Am getting a little tired of it especially as its of no interest.

[LADmachiningParticipant @ladmachining]

If you use your browser ‘back’ button after viewing a post, rather than navigating using the forums link at the top of the page, the pop-up keeps coming back.  Navigating by any other method prevents it from reappearing.

[Jim WhetrenParticipant @jimwhetren72358]

When I suddenly lost access to the digital archive, the only way I could restore it was to disable the control of cookies, pop-ups and mobile control in my internet security suite.

 

Enabling the pop-up blocker has stopped the pop-up in its tracks.

 

However, in order to enter text into this reply, everything had to be disabled again. This is strange as it used to work.

 

 

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

I have my computer set for no pop up ads and ONLY get ONE “Digital” when I read my FIRST topic, thereafter no problems.  Looks like a set up problem to me.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

It does look like a setup problem.

The office are investigating.

You should see it once only when you log in.

Click the close button and you should not see it again unless you use the back button to get to the home page.

 

regards David

 

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

One of the advantages of coming from a more enlightened age was that when problems occurred, we were taught to go through a systematic checking approach and piece by piece elliminate the various options to achieve a solution.

 

 Todays techy geniei leave school with a degree in illiteracy and an inability to LISTEN. Perhaps “The office” should be reminded with a suitable length of 4″x2″ (100×50) WOOD not metal that before embarking on yet more gimmicks “Hey lads, look what I’VE just done”, that the same old same olds keep coming back and untill they are sorted, the perpitraitors are just annoying the users.

 

  Regards  Ian.

 

  We get the stupid subscription pop-up but we still can’t take a test ride to see what you’re trying to extract more pictures of HRH from our pockets.

Edited By Circlip on 23/04/2010 13:38:53

[keithmartParticipant @keithmart]

Hi

I wonder when web designers will realise that pop ups are annoying, and most people will ignore them and the advertising effect is lost, and devotees to a web site will also be lost.

regards

Keith

Leeds UK

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi There

Nothing to do with web designer.

They only do as asked.

Marketing department is responsible.

regards david

 

Edited By David Clark 1 on 23/04/2010 13:55:58

[Keith Wardill 1Participant @keithwardill1]

Just my 2-pennorth – I only get the pop-up once when I log in (and promptly cancel it – keithmart is right about its impact). Depending on what I am doing, I use either the ‘back’ button on the browser, right-click and ‘back’, and sometimes the ‘home’ button to get back to the Home page, and I never get this pop-up. I can’t believe I am just lucky, so the only thing left is setup. I have XP on one machine, and use Firefox as the browser (no microsoft rubbish if I can help it), and Vista with Firefox on my laptop.

 

The best answer by far is for someone to have a quiet word with the marketing department and tell them to break with tradition, and stop wrecking a good site with unwanted, unread rubbish – please don’t go the way of other good sites, and alienate readers.

 

[mgjParticipant @mgj]

I agree about impact. these popups are intensely irritating and counter productive..

 

Bookmark not the sites home page, but any other page. I now have “latest posts” as my bookmark and I don’t get it at all.

 

 

 

 

[clivelParticipant @clivel]

Posted by Keith Wardill on 23/04/2010 16:44:06:

I can’t believe I am just lucky, so the only thing left is setup. I have XP on one machine, and use Firefox as the browser (no microsoft rubbish if I can help it), and Vista with Firefox on my laptop.

 

 

 One should not have to alter their browser settings in order to circumvent poor web site programming. The fault is clearly with the web developer, there is no excuse for the pop up appearing every time one exits a thread via the back button, and I very much doubt that is what marketing would have wanted.

The current behaviour of the pop-up makes the site almost unusable for me unless I alter my browsing habits or my browser settings, neither of which are acceptable.

 

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Well that’s a resounding vote against the pop-up.

If, as David suggests, it’s the brain(?)child of the Marketing Department will they listen or just ” blunder on regardless” annoying their customers?  So let’s see –  they can’t live without customers but I can (albeit reluctantly) live without a site that hassles me. Let’s see what next week brings.

Edited By NJH on 24/04/2010 01:28:13

[mgjParticipant @mgj]

Exactly so. And there are other sites.

[Peter G. ShawParticipant @peterg-shaw75338]

Let me just add my name and vote against pop-ups. Adverts if you must (I for one simply ignore them), but intrusive pop-ups, no.

 

Regards,

 

Peter G. Shaw

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

Sad that some have to threaten to leave all because the “Marketing” wallies think they know best. In PROPPER organisations marketing usually listen to the customers and alter their strategy to market forces?? Naaaaa, Perhaps they are unable to READ. (See my previous posting).

 

 Oh the enlightened times we live in.

 

  Another Question DC1. On other web sites there is a Cancel membership button. Can your designers fit one onto here so that instead of stopping posting, a more obvious vision is shown???

 

  Regards  Ian.

[VersabossParticipant @versaboss]

I can only add myself too. P.G Shaw said it before better than I can. I usually go back to the ‘homepage, because there I see the full list of latest postings, and it is a nuisance now

But be honest, my dear Brits: let’s give them a little time. Isn’t it so that you cannot expect too much from British businesses say, between Thursday  teatime and Monday noon? 

Greetings, Hansrudolf

[CirclipParticipant @circlip]

Trouble is Hansrudolf, your lot are so damned efficient, how did you come second in———————————————————–1966.

 

 Now you’re showing us up to be the idiots we are 

 

  Best regards  Ian.

[TerrydParticipant @terryd72465]

Posted by Versaboss on 24/04/2010 13:07:50:

But be honest, my dear Brits: let’s give them a little time. Isn’t it so that you cannot expect too much from British businesses say, between Thursday  teatime and Monday noon? 

 That’s still at least a day more than the French work and like us they are still efficient enough to be in the top six GDP earners without having to overstrain ourselves, unlike those countries who have to work all those long hours to compete    

 

Seriously though I agree with the general mood of the comments so far about these damned popups.  As far as I am concerned, whenever I see one anywhere, I swear to myself never to give my custom to anyone who has to drum up business in such a way. I was thinking about a sub to the digital archive but I think I’ll stick to my local library archive now.

 

I’m with you Ian.

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