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11-05-2006, 06:43 AM
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| | | Adding Insult to Injury: Walkthru will not load because of the advertisement!
I have encountered the most annoying behavior today trying to load IWD2 walk-thru (I also checked KOTORII one and it has the same problem). It will not load, displaying in pale text that "Advertisement Loading" instead. I repeatedly loaded the page, refreshed it, left it running for a few minutes, tried loading www.gamebanshee.com - with the same result. The only page that loads is the forums. It's infuriating. Please, if someone of the site administrators is reading this, check what sort of a file is that advert you are trying us to see. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the bug will be resolved.
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11-05-2006, 06:46 AM
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| | | After reading your post, made a bit trying myself... and have exactly same problem. Only forums load, everything else stops to "advertising loading" -thing...
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11-05-2006, 06:59 AM
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| | | Same result as Kipi's. Tried both IE and Firefox. The page stops at the 'advertisement loading' bar.
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11-05-2006, 08:40 AM
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| | Do you folks mean the page being redirected and ending up with a nearly blank page, with a little advert bar up at the top left, with no way to go forward?  That has been happening to me for a few months. Repeatedly, and regularly. It makes using the site pointless at times. Pop-ups are one thing, you can get around them. Having something that completely rejects the option to go through to the link I click on and stop dead at a banner ad on a blank page every time I click a link is completely another. It interferes with posting and simply viewing pages much of the time.
However, I must say, that using the tabbed browsing through Firefox does sometimes circumvent this problem. I have started to right click and click "Open new tab" on this site now. It cuts the interferance down by more than half usually.
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11-05-2006, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Magrus  Do you folks mean the page being redirected and ending up with a nearly blank page, with a little advert bar up at the top left, with no way to go forward? That has been happening to me for a few months. Repeatedly, and regularly. It makes using the site pointless at times. Pop-ups are one thing, you can get around them. Having something that completely rejects the option to go through to the link I click on and stop dead at a banner ad on a blank page every time I click a link is completely another. It interferes with posting and simply viewing pages much of the time.
However, I must say, that using the tabbed browsing through Firefox does sometimes circumvent this problem. I have started to right click and click "Open new tab" on this site now. It cuts the interferance down by more than half usually. | Well, when you find things like this, you should really report it to Buck so he can take it up with the advertisement provider. |
11-05-2006, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Xandax Well, when you find things like this, you should really report it to Buck so he can take it up with the advertisement provider. | After the nonsense everyone went through a bit back, I decided to put it off and let him get caught up on his work and just sort of tuned it out. I didn't want to bother him and that time and kind of got used to going around it.
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11-05-2006, 02:25 PM
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| | | I have notified UGO about the issue and will hopefully hear something back very soon. For what it's worth, though, I can load both the ID2 and KotOR2 walkthroughs on my PC without any problem. It could be a cookie problem as the full-screen ad is only supposed to display once every 24 hours. If the cookie isn't working, it might be putting you in an endless loop. |
11-05-2006, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Xandax Well, when you find things like this, you should really report it to Buck so he can take it up with the advertisement provider. |
I tried that when the 'once in 24hrs advert' wouldn't let me get past it. I was ignored.
Eventually, after waiting for several days, then waiting again, I got onto the forum page.
Since which time I have carefully avoided trying to go anywhere else on the site, since it was going elsewhere that seemed to trigger the advert trap.
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11-05-2006, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Buck Satan It could be a cookie problem as the full-screen ad is only supposed to display once every 24 hours. If the cookie isn't working, it might be putting you in an endless loop. | That could be my problem. I reject all cookies aside from the ones I manually allow. I know I did allow some for this site, so I don't have to login everytime. I may be rejecting a new one that would fix this however.
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11-06-2006, 10:46 AM
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| | | I figured I would upload a screenshot of what I've been dealing with lately. As you should be able to see, the little banner is a link, and it will go to the LucasArts/ Star Wars Empire at War site when you click it. However, there is no way to go forward onto the page I attempted to get to by clicking the original link. In addition to that, it simply loops me directly back to that banner add on a blank page when I hit the "Back" button for my browser.
Would this be what was mentioned in the original post? Or is this something different altogether?
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11-07-2006, 09:18 AM
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I have notified UGO about the issue and will hopefully hear something back very soon. For what it's worth, though, I can load both the ID2 and KotOR2 walkthroughs on my PC without any problem. It could be a cookie problem as the full-screen ad is only supposed to display once every 24 hours. If the cookie isn't working, it might be putting you in an endless loop.
| I am not sure it was the case, because before and after the incedent there was no problems, I can see the ads just fine (gods, I can't bvelieve I was actually welcoming the sight!) My uneducated guess was that there was one particular advert that was messing things up. |
11-07-2006, 11:15 AM
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| | | I've been told that this issue has been fixed. Is anyone still having an issue accessing any of our content pages? |
11-07-2006, 02:26 PM
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| | everything is fine on my end. thank you for prompt troubleshooting.  |
11-07-2006, 06:21 PM
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| | No problems on my part here. Thank you.
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11-08-2006, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Buck Satan I've been told that this issue has been fixed. Is anyone still having an issue accessing any of our content pages? | I figured I would wait and see. Given I have been busy working/playing NWN 2, I didn't notice it until today. I allowed the cookies to this site, they weren't being allowed before. That didn't affect things. I am still having trouble with that same add problem as before. If no one else is having the problem however, I will assume it is just punishment from some higher power for something I did and work around it as I have been. 
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