Mesh background with the new Ads Thread

Hey intense and ModDB crew, thanks for taking my idea on board. it looks pretty good but I feel needs to be optimized for lower resolution displays as it appears cropped on my smaller monitors (you may want to perhaps make them scalable images or a low res substitute.)

I was observing that the mesh background looks a bit out of place now, its possibly a better idea to change it back to a solid colour as per the v3 background as in terms of visuals it looks a bit out of place now with the ad. I just feel that its probably a good idea to just be gone with it since the effect can easily be duplicated with a solid colour of the same value.

It just feels really out of place.

But great job on the implementation.

is this to do with the horrible looking new adverts on this site?

Congratulations.

Incredible Hulk-DB

f*king lamers.

Mr.Kadish wrote: is this to do with the horrible looking new adverts on this site?

Congratulations.

Incredible Hulk-DB

f*king lamers.

if you want the service to be free, we need alternative means of financing the site so it can grow and continue to be alive.

Mr.Kadish wrote: is this to do with the horrible looking new adverts on this site?

Congratulations.

Incredible Hulk-DB

f*king lamers.

Networking at its finest...

its fine, Granted that hulk film sucked balls but I'm cool with the ads on the front page, so long as they STAY OFF the profiles I'm cool with it.

For profiles we should get control of the image that displays so that its relevant to the game. If you guys swarm profiles with Ads I will officially abandon my profiles so PLEASE don't do that.

I'd prefer that the ads be more related to gaming adverts rather than crap films, game adverts look better and its stuff we're actually interested in.

there is a way to make it so the site doesn't look like a huge billboard so implementing this system for user content would be great, front page can have ads for all I care since as we've seen most news immediately gets bumped off the page anyway- this is why people should be SUBSCRIBING to updates rather than relying on the pissing contest which is the front page news so we need to encourage people to look outside of the front page.

ModDB needs money definitely I support anything that will bring it cash flow outside of our user's content.. once you start invading on user content THEN you're going to far- this is why I approve of it being on the front page only. Its a worth while sacrifice if we can then use it to decorate our own profiles

Due to the economy slowdown and other issues, we are hitting a wall whereby we need to balance the needs of our community with the costs associated with running the site. I have always been adamant that we never ever interfere with mod / game profiles (after all we only run 1 ad on those pages, tell me right now which game sites only run 1 ad on 90% of pages?). You (our community) make this site what it is, and I will do all it takes to make sure you continue to love and browse the ModDB. The fallout from this, is of course less revenue - because sponsors goto other sites who do bombard their users with ads and other nonsense. So I'm just trying to strike a balance that works for everyone, and allows us to continue growing. I personally don't mind the wallpapers, though for the time being i've made them show to guests only (members will not see them).

Thanks its great to hear that from you. I don't think the community should look at this negatively since it'll add some features to balance it out that's what my idea was intentionally, once you implement that its all fair. I totally support you making the public parts of ModDB revenue raisers if it means keeping the community alive since yeah the US economy stuff is having a huge impact on US Investment in the video games industry here in Australia and we've so heavily reliant on the US games economy.

While though it's a typical idea I had to blacklist the page. These background-ads are one hell of a nuisance not because it is ads but it drops page speed to 10% ( and this on a high performance machine made for game deving ). Blocking the ads brings back the responsiveness and usage speed the other pages ( without the ads ) do have. Maybe you should think about a different way of displaying the ads. The same problem is also on escapists which uses the same ad format ( and required me to block them too since otherwise it's impossible to use the page in any sane way ).

Dragonlord wrote: While though it's a typical idea I had to blacklist the page. These background-ads are one hell of a nuisance not because it is ads but it drops page speed to 10% ( and this on a high performance machine made for game deving ). Blocking the ads brings back the responsiveness and usage speed the other pages ( without the ads ) do have. Maybe you should think about a different way of displaying the ads. The same problem is also on escapists which uses the same ad format ( and required me to block them too since otherwise it's impossible to use the page in any sane way ).

im not sure what type of gaming dev rig your on but there is no problem over here. Also once you sign in you wont see them.

Henley wrote:

Dragonlord wrote: While though it's a typical idea I had to blacklist the page. These background-ads are one hell of a nuisance not because it is ads but it drops page speed to 10% ( and this on a high performance machine made for game deving ). Blocking the ads brings back the responsiveness and usage speed the other pages ( without the ads ) do have. Maybe you should think about a different way of displaying the ads. The same problem is also on escapists which uses the same ad format ( and required me to block them too since otherwise it's impossible to use the page in any sane way ).

im not sure what type of gaming dev rig your on but there is no problem over here. Also once you sign in you wont see them.

I'm rather positive that if I can play the most resource hungry games out there on maximum settings that the rig is for sure not the problem.

Second if you are logged in it does not vanish. I've had these ugly slow-downs while being logged in looking at the portal page. Not present in the forum though. Since blocking the images ( not the ad container itself, just the image base URL ) everything works fine again like before. Therefore it is for sure the bg-ad which caused it.

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Dragonlord wrote:

Henley wrote:

Dragonlord wrote: While though it's a typical idea I had to blacklist the page. These background-ads are one hell of a nuisance not because it is ads but it drops page speed to 10% ( and this on a high performance machine made for game deving ). Blocking the ads brings back the responsiveness and usage speed the other pages ( without the ads ) do have. Maybe you should think about a different way of displaying the ads. The same problem is also on escapists which uses the same ad format ( and required me to block them too since otherwise it's impossible to use the page in any sane way ).

im not sure what type of gaming dev rig your on but there is no problem over here. Also once you sign in you wont see them.

I'm rather positive that if I can play the most resource hungry games out there on maximum settings that the rig is for sure not the problem.

Second if you are logged in it does not vanish. I've had these ugly slow-downs while being logged in looking at the portal page. Not present in the forum though. Since blocking the images ( not the ad container itself, just the image base URL ) everything works fine again like before. Therefore it is for sure the bg-ad which caused it.

well they should vanish, try refreshing your cache

Chances are it is so. Can't test though since my ad-block list is crammed full and I have no idea anymore which entry/entries stem from the moddb-problem. Although it looks a bit different. When I blocked the offending bg-ad the page sides had been all black. Currently it's back to the dot-mask pattern as is also present on the forum ( where this problem never happened ).

Dragonlord wrote: Chances are it is so. Can't test though since my ad-block list is crammed full and I have no idea anymore which entry/entries stem from the moddb-problem. Although it looks a bit different. When I blocked the offending bg-ad the page sides had been all black. Currently it's back to the dot-mask pattern as is also present on the forum ( where this problem never happened ).

that is weird. ATM you should be able to see the adds when your not logged in (on the homepage only) and once your logged in you will get the normal background mesh and the normal adds.

Seems to work. Logging out does bring back the black background. No idea though why I had for many days these ( blocked ) ads while being logged in.