I'm blaming it on the server migration because I've never had pop-ups until now. Although I must say it's been the same pop-up multiple times, and it's from Amazon Prime Day. So I wonder if Amazon is somehow able to push their shit through many pop-up/ads blockers?

 

Absolutely not. If amazon was pushing ads through their servers they'd be out of business with web hosting.

 

Idk man, I just got on the R3 forum and got that same amazon pop-up. First time it ever happened. Seems like too much of a coincidence that I'm seeing that same ad on more than one forum, during Prime day. I'm really thinking Amazon is somehow pushing their shit on various sites and getting around pop-up blockers somehow :O

Oh they are probably getting around ad blockers, but it has nothing to do with the sites being hosted on AWS. The pop up ad is one the forum admins added, no way around that

 

Oh they are probably getting around ad blockers, but it has nothing to do with the sites being hosted on AWS. The pop up ad is one the forum admins added, no way around that

So was going to reply and got.

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

The ad's go or so will my supporting member and good chance me.

 

Freaking annoying.

 

U BLOCK ORIGIN! No pop ups here! I agree I paid my supporting member fees so don't feel bad using the ad blocker...

 

Also. The pop up ads are literal bullshit. This place is a fuckin dump.

 

even if it was a bit smaller and off to the side but it completely blocks the screen.

 

I just got the amazon prime pop up ad too.

This place is goin down the shitter. All the admins say is "were working on it".

 

Working on squeezing as much ad revenue out of it as they can before forums die completely.

 

Oh man...what will we do then??

 

Use the new forum I'm gonna put up. LOL

 

I put up a thread in the hidden mod only secret coms with the mother ship section asking them to please unfuck the ad.

Hopefully they remove it.

Ey3

 

Have them unfuck the "server is busy" error while you're at it.

 

I was going to reply earlier and kept getting busy server too...again. @capitalcrew, I've seen your idea of a new forum before and in the end it didn't work out. A different bike forum I was on years ago, where people got all butthurt because of the new management (I was part of those people too admittedly), so one of the guys started a new forum. There were a bunch of people that became members there but in the end only a handful that were active. It died off pretty quickly from inactivity because after a while most people ended up going back to the original forum and realized the new management wasn't all that bad. I could see the same thing happening here if you start a new forum. There will be a handful of people only (the Random BS chat regulars most likely) who will eventually get bored because the new forum will basically have just one thread, and that forum will die off too lol

 

I think sbk1198 is spot on, sadly. Forums are dying with people flocking to FB, reddit, twitter/instagram to share bite sized snippets of info/conversation. Most people today can't be bothered to actually get into comparatively deep discussions/exchange of information that historically has been the forte of online forums.

Even forums that have large active user bases, the vast majority of actual posting going on is drive by shitposting of little value. Look at this forum's most active thread for instance. Not saying that is necessarily a negative thing, i'm guilty of shitposting as well.

Add in the fact that interest in motorcycling continues to decline (in the USA at least) the idea of launching another forum to cater to a niche group with dwindling numbers that already has the choice of a hundred other forums seems like a losing proposition.

 

I can't speak to the origin of the popup...nobody has told me anything. I'm just assuming that, wherever it came from, it'll go away once Prime Day is over. That's about 12 hours from now, as I type this.

Neil

 

I put the exact same pop ups on not for profit websites that are amazon smile participants. They have them all of the time.

 

Aren’t all the main motorcycle forums owned by the same group now anyways? And forums won’t die but they’re definitely not as active as sites like reddit. Even Reddit isn’t what it used to be though. The Kawi Reddit is basically dead though