Leaving

[Kilgore Trout]

Too many ads making site way too slow for me to use. Each page takes a few seconds to load. And not paying a subscription fee to use an internet forum out of principle. Besides, many of the regular posters seem to have dropped off of RF for the most part. The new "features" are fine, but I'm here for interaction and discussion, not smilies and alerts. It's been fun - see you around.

 

[beenie]

Nooooo! I don't like seeing this, especially from long-term members.

 

[StarryNightshade]

So, see you in a week or so?

Seems to be a pattern for everyone who announced that they are leaving (me included).

 

[LuisDantas]

Same here, ssainhu.

Take care, and hopefully return soon, Kilgore.

 

[oldbadger]

All the very best.
Your special wit will be missed.

 

[savagewind]

I am sorry to see you go.

 

[Nada]

 

[Rex]

The discussion is still here.

And not sure why your principles are hurt. Last time I checked there are ads supporting many businesses we love. TV, RADIO, Internet, etc. etc. Nothing new here.

 

[Robert.Evans]

Too many ads making site way too slow for me to use. Each page takes a few seconds to load. And not paying a subscription fee to use an internet forum out of principle. Besides, many of the regular posters seem to have dropped off of RF for the most part. The new "features" are fine, but I'm here for interaction and discussion, not smilies and alerts. It's been fun - see you around.

Shame. Now that is two Hurry back.. haha

 

[Brent W]

We show three advertisements. That is it. You can't go on to any major website and see less than that. On top of that the ads are the last thing that loads on the page so it should not be causing any slow down at all.

 

[Nada]

 

[George-ananda]

Too many ads making site way too slow for me to use. Each page takes a few seconds to load. And not paying a subscription fee to use an internet forum out of principle. Besides, many of the regular posters seem to have dropped off of RF for the most part. The new "features" are fine, but I'm here for interaction and discussion, not smilies and alerts. It's been fun - see you around.

Not that I would ever miss your mean-spirited sarcasm, BUT I have not noticed any slowdown in loading pages. Perhaps it is an issue with your computer and not RF.

 

[savagewind]

I might miss it

 

[Brickjectivity]

Too many ads making site way too slow for me to use. Each page takes a few seconds to load. And not paying a subscription fee to use an internet forum out of principle. Besides, many of the regular posters seem to have dropped off of RF for the most part. The new "features" are fine, but I'm here for interaction and discussion, not smilies and alerts. It's been fun - see you around.

There goes my biggest fan.

 

[Pegg]

We show three advertisements. That is it. You can't go on to any major website and see less than that. On top of that the ads are the last thing that loads on the page so it should not be causing any slow down at all.

its slows my internet down and sucks my bandwidth too... so others in the house not happy lol
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[metis]

I've noticed that when I get into these sites with active advertising that it slows down my computer, especially when it runs a scan to throw stuff out. When I'm spending most of my time at sites that don't use these, my computer is quicker overall. As some know, I've not been happy with some of the changes because what we had before worked fine and was simple, and I've been contemplating leaving, but I've decided to hang in here at least a bit longer to see what happens.

Overall, I'm not at all impressed, and if these changes were made just so we can see this constant barrage of motion advertisements, then it was a terrible decision.

 

[Brent W]

For those that said things were simple before and worked fine, this was simply not the case from someone's perspective that runs the forum. There were serious security issues with the old software and there were serious design flaws in how the site works for people who use mobile devices, which now accounts for almost half of our traffic.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Should you leave, it will be a significant loss.

Please reconsider.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Too many ads making site way too slow for me to use. Each page takes a few seconds to load. And not paying a subscription fee to use an internet forum out of principle. Besides, many of the regular posters seem to have dropped off of RF for the most part. The new "features" are fine, but I'm here for interaction and discussion, not smilies and alerts. It's been fun - see you around.

There is AdBlock, you know. That way you can block any element of the site you want blocked and not have to pay anything.

 

[Parsimony]

If you're sure that you're leaving for good, one way to help insure it is to change your password to something random that you can't remember and then log out. It's worked for me before.