Website Loading/Viewing Issues

[Ian Wilde]

Anyone having issues viewing or loading any parts of the website?

[fraser gilmour]

home PC, Ipad and mobile working fine, just the work PC to sort out, must be the firewall blocking it. The new site comes up OK, just doesn't want to load the forum. Anyone else had this problem?

[Terry Simpson]

I'm having the same issues as Fraser. I switched off the pop up blocker and it didn't make any difference, so I've contacted I.T. ..........They've given me a reference number

[Ian Wilde]

The whole website was blocked for me initially, had a word with IT and they unblocked it all.
No problems since.

[fraser gilmour]

Our IT are  still looking at it, they made progress today and found out it was being blocked but not throwing up a message to say that. Hopefully have it sorted soon

[Ian Wilde]

Anyone else getting strange ads on the forum?  Hot single Russian girls etc...

[fraser gilmour]

Yes, random ads, if you click on remove ads its give you option to buy credits for the forum.... now where is my credit card.....

[Chris Eaton]

was blocked from here, but hunky dory now that the good people at the IT help desk did there magic....

[Ian Wilde]

I have tried viewing this via Firefox and IE and I still can't get any adds to pop up even with the pop-up blockers turned off.
I will try with Safari later tonight.

[Ian Wilde]

Nabble - the guys that provide the forum will remove all ads when you buy credits from them.  

Everytime a page is loaded and an add stopped that is 1 credit.

10,000 credits is $6.
100,000 credits is $30
1,000,000 credits is $150

to date the forum has had 1,000 or so views.
I don't think the cost to ART of removing them is going to be significant per year.

You can also choose if ads are stopped just to registered forum users or to everyone.

[Ian Wilde]

Just tried this in Safari on the iPad and the adverts are showing.

[fraser gilmour]

IT here are saying the adds are the reason the forum won't load on my work PC. When they are turned off it should work
I can use other devices till then

[fraser gilmour]

wondered what your sinister avatar was Chris, its a bit small on my phone, zoomed in and realised it's you, lol, is this an old crimewatch pic mate?

[Ian Wilde]

Thats one of his better ones!

Just paid for 1,000 credits - lets see if the ads disappear...

[Terry Simpson]

 I.T. have managed to fix the problem here.
Ads have disappeared too.

[Ian Wilde]

6 bucks well spent then!

[fraser gilmour]

I can see the ads have gone but the forum is still not loading on my work pc, can those of you who have had success with your loading problems possibly get some detail from  your IT support of what the problem is and how they got over it so I can give our guys a clue?

[Chris Eaton]

Think it highlights my inner beauty Fraser, I'm allowed to use it now they couldn't make the charges stick....

Our trust subscribe to an external website blocking "Thing", can't be more specific than that cos i don't know what it is!
They just added an exception to the list of blocked sites, it was down as blocked due to it being a forum, a generic block existed and now no longer does.

What's with the Ipad Wildeymon? you turning into Captain WOW? it's a slippery slope mate, a slippery slope!!!!
 

[Ian Wilde]

Fear not young Eaton, twas merely a vessel for me to do a test!  Give me a laptop anyday!

Besides, the captain has now converted to Windows tablets and phones - I kid you not!!

[Chris Eaton]

There must be a new world order that I've missed out on!!
WOW on windows, "HELL WILL FREEZE"!!!!!!!