I've noticed it faster on my computer. Haven't tried on my phone since the spring game weekend. But thanks for the update and for caring.
Hey guys.
Just wanted to chime in with some good news.
Over the last two weeks, behind the scenes we have been tirelessly working on ways to improve the performance of our site. Because of this, we will be switching over to a new ad platform - hopefully this afternoon.
The goal: To make our site faster, more mobile friendly and to eliminate any/all issues that are currently caused by ads.
It's a tough world right out in the digital ad landscape. We have more traffic on CF than ever but are making less off of third-party ads than we did five years ago. We will get it figured out. No worries there.
But my top priority has always been to keep our doors open and provide a free site, but to keep CF running as smooth as possible. This change should take care of that.
Just wanted to know that site speed and all of that jazz is a top priority here and you should notice a huge difference in the coming days. Thanks for your patience.
Most annoying problem is clicking on a topic and a full page lottery ad comes up and you have to back up start all over that and page refreshing randomly as you've written a post but not submitted and it erases it all
This annoying, I have to click on 20+ times to make it go away. Happened today when I was reading this thread going to page 2.
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If you've noticed, there is only one ad on the mobile site these days. Had to get rid of them. We've been hemorrhaging money because of it but we had to make it usable.
We are working on an ad-free platform for those who want to go that route. Should have details in the next 2-3 weeks. My main goal was moving the ad server first to improve performance.