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Another trains web site update ?

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Posted by samfp1943 on Sunday, February 11, 2018 5:18 PM

I notices changes in the ad content last evening ( Saturday 2/10) I got a major ad change, with 3 panels of "Yogi' Tea ads...Kind of obnoxious, but seems to have settled down to a SMARTT ad for model train layouts, and two for the 'Yogi' Teas... I guess for a 'free' site, in this day and time.. Obnoxious, is going to be just another thing to deal with; at least, Yogi Bear is not on with a sales pitch for tea??? MischiefMischief  Sigh 

 

 


 

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Posted by Miningman on Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:33 AM

Do not see any changes whatsoever....

Phone is an older iPhone 5S running 11.2.5

iPad even older running 10.3.3

Only ad ever is a Trains magazine one.

S'all Good Man as Saul Goodman would say. 

SIRI however likes to get mischevious sometimes and substitues words that are not even remote to what I typed...she is a prankster. 

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:16 AM

blue streak 1

At 2301 EST  ( 2201 CST ) my displays on this site changed.  Is anyone else experiencing the same thing ?

   Changed in what way?   I don't see any difference, although there might be a change in the ad space to the right.   I never pay attention to that area, so I can't say for sure.   W10, Edge.

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Posted by Overmod on Saturday, February 10, 2018 11:30 PM

Things have gone to hell on a phone.  Quoting text is uncertain; many displayed messages (especially those with big signatures) are utterly unanswerable because any motion of the phone doesn't give you even the edge of a 'reply' button and pinching to change the size changes the whole frame (with nothing on the outside, so it just snaps back) -- if the text can be resized it isn't by using any of the Apple iOS toolkit conventions I know, even the undocumented ones.  This is especially bad because I could read the reflowed text from 'wide' posts in the editing window ... when I could hit reply to get it there.

I won't know until I get to a computer if I'm still relatively ad-free.  That's on a Mac running 10.9.5.  Under Windows 10 not only did I get an ad fiesta but a few of them would crash the browser badly enough to freeze the OS - this seemed to be associated with content in certain ads, judging by error messages and dumps.

Hope it doesn't get worse.

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Another trains web site update ?
Posted by blue streak 1 on Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:17 PM

At 2301 EST  ( 2201 CST ) my displays on this site changed.  Is anyone else experiencing the same thing ?

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