I've been getting extra ads for the past few days. I'm definitely logged in.
If everyone is getting this, that's fine! They aren't much of a nuisance. But figured I'd mention it in case it was a bug.
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I've been getting extra ads for the past few days. I'm definitely logged in.
If everyone is getting this, that's fine! They aren't much of a nuisance. But figured I'd mention it in case it was a bug.
The top one isn't technically an ad, it's something I manually entered into the announcement box.
We need to give the full priced business classifieds more exposure, and that's my temporary no-developer-effort needed solution.
I was only planning to leave it there for a couple of days, but if it's bothering people it can certainly be gone sooner.
As for the other one, we've always had that slot, but I don't think it's been enabled for a while - I believe it should be hidden for GDNet+ as part of your benefits though it's probably a directly sold advert rather than one from a bulk third-party provider - I'll shoot Mike an email tonight and make sure everything is ok with them.
I don't mind the ad in the announcement bar, sorry to give the wrong impression!
I tried to say that it wasn't a nuisance, but thought it was only showing up by mistake.
It just appeared at the same time as the "between posts" ad, so I thought they were related. Normally the "between posts" ad only appears when I'm not signed in to GameDev.net.
If I remember correctly, the ad after the first post is only supposed to show up if you aren't signed in. GDNet+ isn't required - any level of membership gets that one removed.
So when it appeared, I was thinking something got misconfigured.
If it's supposed to be there, because a sponsor directly paid for it, I'm fine with that!
If the ad in the announcement bar benefits GDNet, I'm fine with that also! They are both non-obtrusive ads.
I only mentioned it because I thought something was going wrong - either sitewide or, when after a few days nobody else mentioned the after-first-post ad, something going wrong on my account specifically.