New Ad Placements

[Jeff]

Dear ProBoards Members,

As I'm sure many of you have noticed, when viewing posts on your ProBoards® message board, we now place the banner ads between the first and second posts while viewing threads. This post here is to address your concerns regarding this.

For the last 3 weeks, we have been testing this new ad placement on our support forum (which you are now viewing). We understand that initial reactions to this new positioning is, for the most part, negative. However, after giving it some time, we've found that the new placement not only blends in with the forum quite well but has become accepted among the members here.

We ask that you please give yourself some time to get used to the new positioning.

We welcome any constructive comments you have in this thread. Please stay on topic and keep the discussion to an appropriate civil level.

Updates:

1) No Image Ads Between Posts

We are working to make it so that image ads will not display in the areas between posts, as this has been a concern for some users in terms of wanting the design of their board to flow better. Please give us some time as we implement this change.

2) Fix for Boards with Small Widths (less than 728 pixels)

After going through some options in regards to those who use templates with small widths (728px and smaller):

We are going to work on making the ads "float" above the section of the page that they are on. What this will do is make your layout display properly, and the ad will just float over it's area so that it does not affect the table's width at all. It will be floating over the normal ad area, it will not block any posts. Essentially, it will look completely normal and not stretch your page at all.

[Jeff]

I copied and pasted that from the Proboards support forum. Many admins are complaining about it and there have been about 400 posts in their thread about it in the past 5 hours. I added my two cents asking if the advertisements could be moved to above the posts on every page instead of in between the first two posts. Don't know how this will work out, but even after the new ad placements, Proboards is still the best board I've used, so I don't plan to relocate RGO because of this

[JP]

I just noticed it now. I think it sucks, but it's a free board so what can we do. Besides, I still think it's better than how ezboard display their ads right now. (ezboard display their ads on the right side of your first post. It's totally annoying!)

[Heather]

I noticed this on my BB game first too, it won't affect me much i suppose, but it is a little weird.

[quinn]

A LITTLE WEIRD? A LITTLE WEIRD?
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Yeah it's a little weird.

[survivormom]

I don't think it matters much, to tell you the truth.
As was mentioned, this is a FREE board....but that doesn't mean that it is FREE to run. Someone has to foot the bill. If they want to put their ads under every post then that is their perrogative. It would suck, but it is still their site.
I think that it is something we just need to accept and move on. No biggie, right guys. We can all still fit in the hot tub just fine...and this will give us something to read while we get sloppy.

[JP]

I see your point Mom. Although I think customer satisfaction is still a factor. If people don't like where the ads are put, then chances are these people will move on to other free forum hosts (there tons of them right now). Less people, less money.

I'm used to it now though.

[Aerith]

The ads are gone! yayayayayayayayayayayayay!