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[Brome Teks]

This isn't so much a bug as it is a design issue, but I think the heading above the content area of the website, with a banner ad, Store ad, and now enlarged XAP ad, is getting a bit too large for it's alloted area. It's making the forum seem a bit clunky to me, when in order for me to see the content, there's a fairly significant block of advertisements that I have to scroll past. It's even here as I'm writing this post.

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If it's not too much to ask, could those ads be moved or something so users don't have to scroll so far just to get to the content of the site?

[SliceOfDog]

Hmm, I can definitely see what you mean. We'll have a staff chat about it, see what can be done. I can't imagine there will be a massive change, but probably the new XAP box (much as I love it!) might have to be shifted some place else...

Thanks for bringing it up

[Daryn]

One of the banner ads is going to be removed as soon as it generates a few more dollars and lets us cash out. After that the google ads are gone from the forum. The other two I'll see what I can think of to scale them down. Though I think that once that first ad is gone it won't be quite as much trouble.

[Slate]

As far as the XAP box, the best solution I can think of at the moment is to just create a new page for it and give it a button at the top like the Wiki, Blogs, Arcade, etcetera. On the page itself we could have all the info about XAP, links to download episodes and/or segments and so forth, while eliminating the space it used on the general forum. Further discussion is warranted, of course, but I think this is a good jumping off point.

[Rick Canaan]

Speaking of the Google Ad....

Pretty much the whole time we've had Google Ads, they've been earning us only a penny a day. Right now, in fact, they are at $95.78. And they don't pay out until they reach $100. We have been waiting weeks, biting our nails, for that to happen. As soon as it reaches $100, too, we are canning the whole Google Ad thing.

So if you guys want to see the Google Ad thing go away faster, just start clicking it every time you visit the site. That will boost its revenue up from just a penny a day, to as much as $.50 a day, depending upon how many clicks they get.

Google Ads was this big thing that came along that promised sites easy and fast income. Like, running the server for this site is expensive (which I pay for 100% out of my pocket, by the way), so we took on Google Ads in hopes of it helping me to pay for the site.

Not.

It has been an excruciatingly slow process, of watching those ads make a penny or two a day. They, simply put, are just not worth having on the site. But again, as I say, since they won't cash out until $100, it would be foolish to get rid of them since they are so close. But at the rate they are building towards $100, it could take months yet before it goes away - unless members help us get rid of them by starting to click on them.

So click the ads, let me get paid, and that annoying space-taker goes away.