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New Ad Layouts

squeaky

11/3/08 02:56 pm

I have updated the ad layouts to try to make the site easier on the eyes. This is work that I had completed some time ago but never rolled live. I decided that you guys deserved something out of me so since this wasn't going to take additional time I have rolled it out.

Right now what you will notice is that there are ads on your profile page and entry pages. If you have a paid account you will not see ads at all on the site while you are logged in.

Now for an extra bonus, if you are paid, nobody will see ads on your profile page or your entry pages. There will still be ads on other parts of the site as soon as I have time to write the code to add them in.

Sorry this took so long.

*edit*
We are aware that the large square ad on the right side of the profile messes with the layout. We are going to look into a way of fixing that as soon as possible.

*edit2*
I have moved the second ad on the profile page from a square ad on the right to a leaderboard below "Account type" This should resolve formatting issues some were seeing.

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• anata_no_hiro

  11/13/08 06:52 am (UTC)

  First of all, thanks for all of your hard work. It's not easy trying to balance what works with trying to make people happy. I'm not exactly *happy* with the new ad layout, but it's not anything I can't get used to. ^^
  
  On the other hand, completely unrelated, but I'm also having the problem with not being able to navigate past the most recent entries on the friends pages. We've mentioned this before and were told that it had to do with the journal style and could be over-ridden. It's not. I've tried several different journal styles, as well as the override codes we were referred to. It's not that. It's the same on all journals and styles and the overrides change nothing. There is no way that I've found to see more than the last 20 most recent friends entries without going to each individual friend's journal. This causes a major inconvenience not only to those of us who RP, but also to people who are unable to get online every day and may have much more than 20 posts that they need to go back through. :( Is this going to be fixed any time soon, or is this something we are going to have to learn to deal with?

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  • arcady

    11/13/08 07:26 am (UTC)

    

    Forgive me if i'm not understanding this correctly, but can't you just click "earlier" on your friendspage? What happens if you go to http://****journal****.insanejournal.com/friends?skip=40 ?

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    • anata_no_hiro

      11/13/08 08:26 am (UTC)

      I used to be able to, yes. Now it just says "viewing most recent entries" with no "earlier" option. (screenshot -http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/660509/flist.jpg ) If I try using the link you gave, with inserting my user name, of course, it takes me to a blank page with no entries. (screenshot - http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/660509/friends-page-skip40.jpg )

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      • advertisemyrp

        11/17/08 08:37 pm (UTC)

        

        If the entries on your friends page are older than two weeks old, they won't show up. People usually only notice it if their friend's list isn't very large or active. Those with slower friends' pages notice it pretty much all the time.
        
        If there's something more recent than two weeks and it should be showing up but isn't, I'd suggest opening a support ticket.

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        • anata_no_hiro

          11/17/08 08:45 pm (UTC)

          Thanks for the tip, but that's not it. The oldest entry that is showing is from the 5th, so it's not even going back two weeks. It's not because of slow posting. It's an active RP community, with over 70 members. From talking to others, I know of at least 30+ character journals it's doing the same thing on.

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          • advertisemyrp

            11/17/08 08:47 pm (UTC)

            

            Yeah, then something's definitely wrong. And that's a huge pain in the ass for an RP. I'd definitely suggest opening a ticket and hoping it gets answered.

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            • anata_no_hiro

              11/17/08 08:51 pm (UTC)

              Yeah, it really is. IF it were just a handful of characters, it wouldn't be so much trouble to just check individual journals. But with so many, it gets to be a huge pain, especially when we mods go to checking for dead journals.
              
              Thanks for the advice. I'll definitely get with the other mods and see about getting a ticket in. ^^

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