Front page looks a mess

Silverfish

Hi,

Its just one big ad. Looks terrible.

Also on mobile, when trying to scroll down to see the front page of the site, it usually clicks the ad and loads the page. At that point I just give up and go do something else.

Silverfish

Better shot:

Dav

I'm not sure I follow, we've been running those billboard ads on the front page for about 2 years, is this particular one interfering?

Silverfish

Dav wrote: »

I'm not sure I follow, we've been running those billboard ads on the front page for about 2 years, is this particular one interfering?

Its taking up the majority of the front page, and you can't actually see any of boards.ie, except the menu headers at the top of the page.

All the other ads, while ugly, don't push the site itself so far down the screen that you can't actually see it.

Just to be clear, that's a screenshot of my whole screen.

Attached is how it looks with a normal banner.

Silverfish

Nothing about these massive ads are causing anyone else any hassle?

Screenshot of my whole screen again:

Silverfish

And with an adblocker just so you can spot the difference:

Silverfish

Bit confused about the lack of response.. Do I need to give more info?

Boards.ie: Niamh

Silverfish wrote: »

Nothing about these massive ads are causing anyone else any hassle?

Screenshot of my whole screen again:

Howdy This is not a bug. It is a larger ad format that we run on the homepage from time to time. It is unfortunate that at the time you spotted this one there was also a Sponsored Post running which pushed the thread listings down further.

There is actually one running at the moment from Vodafone, attached is how it appears on my homepage though potentially my screen is a bit larger.

Silverfish

Even without the sponsored post, I can only see one thread in the list, the rest of the screen is taken up with the giant ad.
The smaller banners aren't an issue really, but the big ones take over the whole screen.

If I'm the only person with a laptop and big ads, then I suppose its not worth doing anything, I wouldn't!

Tombi!

What resolution/is the page zoomed in?
Some ads don't play nice when you have the page zoomed in

Silverfish

Tombi! wrote: »

What resolution/is the page zoomed in?
Some ads don't play nice when you have the page zoomed in

1280 x 800, not zoomed. Default resolution.

Tombi!

I'm guessing (not 100% sure since I can't check because no large advert is running) that it's just down to your resolution being 1200x800. Was it always like that on the computer you use?

Silverfish

Tombi! wrote: »

I'm guessing (not 100% sure since I can't check because no large advert is running) that it's just down to your resolution being 1200x800. Was it always like that on the computer you use?

Always. Default resolution for the screen size (13" Macbook Pro)