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An Open Letter to DiSsers
Hullo,
I've recently read your thread entitled An Open Letter to DiS ( http://drownedinsound.com/articles/3292941 ) and I feel you pain.
However, I would like to point out a few things:
1) The current ad bug(s) are being looked into and are a browser issue, rather than something intentionally intrusive. We're as miffed by it as you are, especially as we know that if jerks your chain.
2) The site is currently in transition and another facelift is coming. The movement of the log-in box is, as said previously, only temporary. We're also working on improving the community features and from Monday we will, finally, after several false starts, have a full-time tech person (a luxury we've not had since Matt left for Playlouder 18months ago and have only had people on short-term contracts helping out). Things should be running much smoother and to your and my liking within the next few weeks.
3) We really value your feedback and we don't intentionally do these things to piss ya'all off, promise.
4) Some of you may quite like this new site I'm behind, have a look, especially at the Death Cab piece http://www.theQuietus.com would appreciate your feedback.
Thank you for your patience,
Bst rgrds
Sean Adams
Founder of Drowned in Sound, aged 26 and a half.
:D im satisfied
someone buy the lad a pint
now even a communication about adverts is advertising something
oh man :(
good reply
:)
Good news.
That was nice
but when I clicked on the thread I was really hoping for some drama - can you sort it out please?
You massive bellend
Don't believe the rumours
*lies
Fair dos
Can you explain the constant refreshing thing to someone who knows absolutely nothing technical about computers or the internet? Imagine I'm an idiot, it isn't hard.
there only seems to be a hand-full of people suffering from this
can you (and anyone else this is affecting) tell us
1) whether you're on pc or mac
2) what browser you use
3) whether this happens on all pages
my suspicion is that it is the DiS gigs advert to the left, which refreshes and messes with the board's javascript, can you see if it happens when the ad changes please.
it happened to me
when i was at a pc in work using IE. Dis was the only page affected.
Have seen it with Mozilla, IE and Aol explorer.
It happens after 2 rotations of the gig advert at the moment of the Discover shows.
It doesn't really refresh the page as I don't think new posts are shown.
1) PC
2) Internet Explorer and Firefox (both fairly recent versions, although possibly not the newest)
3) Yup, all pages.
Well, all DiS pages obviously
^exactly what he said^
Mac
Safari
only community pages
1)Mac
2)Safari
3)All pages :(
PC
Internet Explorer 6 (haven't been bothered getting my admin to upgrade).
and every so often it seems to kick off my virus software too, and my DiS windows all close down, very annoying.
happens on all DiS pages.
ok
1: pc
2: opera
3: all dis pages
that half
is crucial, isn't it.
Thanks for the updates
i cant stay mad at DiS
i've got too much from this website
xxxxxxx
*reece?
*herpes from reece
no herpees from her girl willy
more than reece
there is nothing
more than reece
tell me one thing
more than reece...
pfft
Well, if you're going to be all reasonable about it!
Also, whilst you're here, I need to speak to you about this:
http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3293560#r3294047
if...
you go on big brother and leave because of your addiction to the dis boards i will buy you a steak dinner and hand you a brown paper bag.
I'd actually quite like to do that!
Is over 4 years an addiction then?
More adverts I'd say - there's too much 'real estate' not being used properly!
I mean that seriously.
Nice one Sean
all sounds good to me :)
(can you call someone a cunt or something just for old times' sake?)
thanks for clearing this up
it has helped keep my irritation in check.
explanations much appreciated!
so that's what happened to Matt!
i miss him
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