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Boards slowdown and advertising

thebaz · 2016-01-24 16:47:45

ever since the introduction of more and more flash advertising on boards - boards is now crawling for me - other websites BBC, Irish times, Indo and countless others are introducing this bombardment of flash advertisement - by all means , make money and advertise - but surely less is best , and won't interfere with primary…

24-01-2016 4:47pm

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thebaz

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ever since the introduction of more and more flash advertising on boards - boards is now crawling for me - other websites BBC, Irish times, Indo and countless others are introducing this bombardment of flash advertisement - by all means , make money and advertise - but surely less is best , and won't interfere with primary service - and I used to work in Advertising - old school . I rarely post here , and I'm sure this thread will be moved. Frustrated user.

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#2 24-01-2016 4:50pm

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thebaz wrote: »

ever since the introduction of more and more flash advertising on boards - boards is now crawling for me - other websites BBC, Irish times, Indo and countless others are introducing this bombardment of flash advertisement - by all means , make money and advertise - but surely less is best , and won't interfere with primary service - and I used to work in Advertising - old school . I rarely post here , and I'm sure this thread will be moved. Frustrated user.

Yeah, it has nothing to do with the ddos attack or anything....

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#3 24-01-2016 4:50pm

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It's bad on the iPad ads covering post and you can't read them.

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#4 24-01-2016 4:51pm

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Boards has been under a huge DDoS attack this last week, that is the reason for the snails pace of pages loading.
It could be a few more weeks before its running normally, until then we have to grin and bear it I afraid

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#5 24-01-2016 4:53pm

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It's not the advertising, the site is still under attack. Read below.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057551241

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#6 24-01-2016 5:01pm

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The site seems to still be under attack, there's a thread in AH and Feedback where you'll find updates from the boards team when they have them

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