Forum:New Ad Bar

Tell me that is add bar is a joke please.

21:55, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I noticed it a few minutes ago. There is one at the top and bottom of every page. We all knew this would happen eventually (though I read there would only be the one).-- 22:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The Most Silly Thing (for me) is that the ad bars aren't set to the page width. Of course, I browse in "mostly ad-free" mode... --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 22:33, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I was aware this would happen too, but the top one is simply aggravating, standing between the article name and the article is not a very good place for a AD to be--Ashbear160 (talk) 22:34, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * i Would only offer 2 suggestions
 * Change the Top bar to somewhere more comfortable(interpret that as you will)
 * Give at least some space between the category and the bottom bag, they are glued together and makes it hard to read--Ashbear160 (talk) 22:36, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I'd kind of prefer they just not appear on talk or user/user talk pages. 22:42, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I guess there's noone to address these problems we have or is there?--Ashbear160 (talk) 22:53, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
 * We'll try to raise someone on this. -- 22:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Yay thanks--Ashbear160 (talk) 23:12, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

I like how they are at the moment, one at up and one at bottom. They are in the best possible spots. For all complainers, imagine how much worse they'v could been and imagine how much more there'v could been. Yours sincerely, --U7 (talk) 15:00, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

The banner disappears once you click on it two times. It's a small price to pay in my opinion --Petrovic (talk) 15:41, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree, it is a small price to pay and the positions are ok... but myself personally, I don't see them needed on talk pages. 15:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * And now the position is better. Centered. 16:33, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

I got sleepy and forgot to fix it, centered, added some padding, moved around the top bar. Hopefully that's better, sorry guys. --Bumble (talk) 16:45, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you, it is much better. 16:49, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Also my thanks, too now it's completely unobstructive, yay--Ashbear160 (talk) 17:40, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

It begs the obvious question, though: Why are they there at all? I was of the impression that we dumped Wikia (partly) for just this sort of thing, ads taking too prominent a space. -- Joshmaul, Loremaster of Chaos (Leave a Message) 22:59, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * We dumped Wikia for a loss of control over the design of the community's website. We understand that servers cost money.  A few ads are fine.  But Wikia was making tons of money off of us and not listening to what we had to say. -- 23:03, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * And these ads unlike wikia are not in the middle of the article but at the end and beginning which is pretty cool too--Ashbear160 (talk) 00:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

A few requests/comments from me: As an aside, an upgrade to 1.16.2 would be nice. Hopefully it'll solve a few leaks we've been having with emails... -- k_d3 04:06, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Load the JS last instead of inline?
 * Class the div so it doesn't show up in print view?
 * Do we really need ads on non-mainspace pages? Or when editing? Looking at special pages? ...
 * I'm seeing gray/white flickering while ads load in bandwidth-constrained situations. I'll try to see if I can figure out what's causing it.
 * Validate code!