Recent content by JFP

  1. JFP

    avast is blocking anandtech forums

    We've opened a bug with Avast. We believe one of the ad providers had a bad ad. I should also note that we are in the process of rolling out a system to scan all ads before they are rendered to prevent these issues.
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    Scrolling ad on Mobile

    Favicon is fixed.
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    Suspicious activity detected page

    We are testing a new system from an outside vendor. I'll tell them to take a look at this thread. Are you guys blocking javascript or using an ad blocker?
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    Scrolling ad on Mobile

    I dropped a note to operations on the favicon. They will check it out. We actually do block ad creative in response to complaints, but as I said above the main problems are where we don't see the creative ahead of time.
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    Why no forum icon?

    I'm having Ops check on this and fix it.
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    Scrolling ad on Mobile

    We do take it seriously, and we are working on it. Most of these issues are caused by programmatic ads where we don't see the creative ahead of time.
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    Large slow loading top ad forcing the page down

    Everyone, That was not supposed to be happening, and it was fixed this morning. Sorry about that.
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    Large slow loading top ad forcing the page down

    I can't reproduce that, but I've put in a query to Ad Ops to see if we are actually doing that.
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    Large slow loading top ad forcing the page down

    Just wanted to drop a note that I haven't forgotten about this. Still looking for a good solution that I can get everyone to sign on to.
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    Large slow loading top ad forcing the page down

    Also, part of the problem is that the ads are loading asynchronously, which is what is causing the jumping.
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    Large slow loading top ad forcing the page down

    Thanks, I just saw one. I'll check with our AdTech team to see if we are specifying that as a size or the programmatic buyers are targeting them at the regular banner size.
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    Large slow loading top ad forcing the page down

    John (Purch CTO and in charge of AdTech) here. I'm not seeing any large ads on desktop. Are you guys seeing them on mobile?
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    Unexpected Forum Downtime

    Turns out that we've accidentally discovered a bug in Amazon RDS. We're working with Amazon support to get the issue fixed.
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    Very Slow Loading Forum Pages!?

    We (Purch) are looking into this issue. My initial conclusion is that we need to upgrade the hardware the site is running on. In any event, I promise we'll improve the page speed over time.
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    Purch Acquires Anandtech – What This Means to You

    We are going to be doing a complete technical assessment in the next few weeks and seeing what we can improve on. That's something I will definitely be looking at.
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