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hullaballoo wrote: »It's not just that, it's the fact that they tend to be very buggy and often cause multiple duplicate posts to appear in threads.
And of course the "genuine" apps never have those problems
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We've had the unofficial ones pulled from the Play store, the advertising issues aside, they were causing multiple posts as mentioned and it was driving people demented (and even more so when the people using it didn't have the ability to figure out why). Besides, they weren't actually "apps." They were just simple wrappers built to show you touch.boards.ie so they provided zero additional functionality to what we already offer.
I've got the latest Android app release candidate on my phone atm and it's *nearly* there as far as I'm concerned - I spotted one or two very small and non-showstopping bugs, but I wouldn't be a "normal" user anyway, so I tend to break things more 0 -
We've had the unofficial ones pulled from the Play store, the advertising issues aside, they were causing multiple posts as mentioned and it was driving people demented (and even more so when the people using it didn't have the ability to figure out why). Besides, they weren't actually "apps." They were just simple wrappers built to show you touch.boards.ie so they provided zero additional functionality to what we already offer.
I've got the latest Android app release candidate on my phone atm and it's *nearly* there as far as I'm concerned - I spotted one or two very small and non-showstopping bugs, but I wouldn't be a "normal" user anyway, so I tend to break things more
Dammit Dav we told you not to play with the new app
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We've had the unofficial ones pulled from the Play store, the advertising issues aside, they were causing multiple posts as mentioned and it was driving people demented (and even more so when the people using it didn't have the ability to figure out why). Besides, they weren't actually "apps." They were just simple wrappers built to show you touch.boards.ie so they provided zero additional functionality to what we already offer.
I've got the latest Android app release candidate on my phone atm and it's *nearly* there as far as I'm concerned - I spotted one or two very small and non-showstopping bugs, but I wouldn't be a "normal" user anyway, so I tend to break things more
First he breaks the servers, now the app. Stop breaking things, Dav.
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We've had the unofficial ones pulled from the Play store, the advertising issues aside, they were causing multiple posts as mentioned and it was driving people demented (and even more so when the people using it didn't have the ability to figure out why). Besides, they weren't actually "apps." They were just simple wrappers built to show you touch.boards.ie so they provided zero additional functionality to what we already offer.
I've got the latest Android app release candidate on my phone atm and it's *nearly* there as far as I'm concerned - I spotted one or two very small and non-showstopping bugs, but I wouldn't be a "normal" user anyway, so I tend to break things more
Better get this one pulled too.
Think of all the ad monies you're losing(!) :pac:
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If anyone was actually daft enough to use Windows Phone then I might have grounds for concern...
This morning something went sideways with the old m.boards and so we've got a plan to patch it and hopefully have it back up and running later today, but it's time is now done. In 2 weeks it'll be permanently switched off. Sorry folks, we know there are a few of you using it, but when these old skins are a problem, it's more trouble than it's worth to fix them and so as we've been saying for years (at least 4 at this stage) we're going to remove them.0 -
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If anyone was actually daft enough to use Windows Phone then I might have grounds for concern...
This morning something went sideways with the old m.boards and so we've got a plan to patch it and hopefully have it back up and running later today, but it's time is now done. In 2 weeks it'll be permanently switched off. Sorry folks, we know there are a few of you using it, but when these old skins are a problem, it's more trouble than it's worth to fix them and so as we've been saying for years (at least 4 at this stage) we're going to remove them.
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AlanS181824 wrote: »AdBlock
No but to be fair usually if ads aren't too intrusive I leave them on but after that massive Vodafone ad with sound that played on the home page I have AdBlock on as a silent protest to Boards :pac:
The Vodafone ad you mentioned was months and months ago if I recall and the fact that it played sound was an error - we don't want those sorts of ads and when they're reported on the odd occasion that one slips through, they're dealt with really quickly. Ordinarily I wouldn't respond, but you seem to take some sort of sly enjoyment out of recommending AdBlock to people here on Feedback and those ads are the main reason we can pay our wages. The site isn't profitable and this sort of attitude keeps it that way. So if you're not going to support us, that's fine (well it's not actually, but there's no point in arguing it with you), but please stop recommending others do the same, especially when you're using such a piss poor excuse of an accidental ad with sound appearing once.0 -
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AlanS181824 wrote: »AdBlock
No but to be fair usually if ads aren't too intrusive I leave them on but after that massive Vodafone ad with sound that played on the home page I have AdBlock on as a silent protest to Boards :pac:
If you don't have a sh1ty Data Cap then you are aswell turn off Adblock and sites will load faster.The Vodafone ad you mentioned was months and months ago if I recall and the fact that it played sound was an error - we don't want those sorts of ads and when they're reported on the odd occasion that one slips through, they're dealt with really quickly. Ordinarily I wouldn't respond, but you seem to take some sort of sly enjoyment out of recommending AdBlock to people here on Feedback and those ads are the main reason we can pay our wages. The site isn't profitable and this sort of attitude keeps it that way. So if you're not going to support us, that's fine (well it's not actually, but there's no point in arguing it with you), but please stop recommending others do the same, especially when you're using such a piss poor excuse of an accidental ad with sound appearing once.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/182428-ironic-iframes-adblock-plus-is-probably-the-reason-firefox-and-chrome-are-such-memory-hogsThis might seem counterintuitive at first — after all, ABP blocks all of those annoying animated Flash ads from loading, and so it should save you from unnecessary memory and CPU hits. Unfortunately, the actual situation is a lot more complex than that. Basically, ABP has grown too big for its own good, and just the very process of running ABP in your web browser consumes more memory and CPU cycles than it saves.
To begin with, according to Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote, there is a 60-70MB memory hit having Adblock Plus run in the background on Firefox. The main problem, though, is the process by which ABP actually blocks ads. Basically, ABP inserts a massive CSS stylesheet — occupying around 4MB of RAM — into every single webpage that you visit, stripping out the ads. This wouldn’t be a problem if we were still in the ’90s or early ’00s, but nowadays it is very common for a webpage to have lots of iframes, which are separate, individual webpages that are loaded and embedded within the page you’re currently looking at. The most common example is the ubiquitous social sharing widget (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) which is actually an iframe containing a separate webpage hosted on Facebook/Twitter’s servers.
You can probably see where this is going.
On a modern website, there can be dozens of iframes. On the ExtremeTech homepage there are 10, which is pretty low. In Nethercote’s testing, he found that TechCrunch used around 194MB of RAM without ABP enabled — but that doubled to 417MB with ABP enabled, after triggering all of the social widgets. In an extreme example, the VIM Color Scheme Test website — which has hundreds of iframes — goes from a few hundred megabytes of memory to almost two gigabytes. Nethercote only tested ABP’s memory consumption in Firefox, but we performed the same test in Chrome and got the same results.
It’s harder to measure the CPU hit from having ABP enabled, but after some non-scientific testing it definitely feels like websites render more slowly with ABP installed.
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Well it was a massive nuisance nonetheless but I understand mistakes can happen.The Vodafone ad you mentioned was months and months ago if I recall and the fact that it played sound was an error - we don't want those sorts of ads and when they're reported on the odd occasion that one slips through, they're dealt with really quickly. Ordinarily I wouldn't respond, but you seem to take some sort of sly enjoyment out of recommending AdBlock to people here on Feedback and those ads are the main reason we can pay our wages. The site isn't profitable and this sort of attitude keeps it that way. So if you're not going to support us, that's fine (well it's not actually, but there's no point in arguing it with you), but please stop recommending others do the same, especially when you're using such a piss poor excuse of an accidental ad with sound appearing once.
And by no means am I recommending AdBlock, since when does mentioning a service translate to recommending it?
Regardless, I actually have it off now anyway so can I be in your good books again please?
As you can see by my post count I am very active on Boards so of course I will leave it off 0 -
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