Feedback Excessive Ads on Mobile

Between the post and reply of a thread, there is a looooong line of full width ads that take a few seconds to scroll through. They are powered by Taboola.

This really hurts my mobile user experience to the point that I don't even enjoy visiting DP on my mobile phone.

Does there have to be so many ads? they aren't even targeted, so I doubt your intentional CTR is very high.

 

I also find the navigation to be terrible as well. Piss poor user experience, and I only frequent the forum on a mobile out of necessity.

 

Yeah. Agreed. If this continues, I will have to install an adblocker for mobile as well (which, until now, hasn't really been needed). The ads on mobile take up at least 2 whole screens (about 4-5 images) - it's really not something DP should have.

 

Nobody has mentioned the fact that when you click on the Forums tab on a cell phone it opens the drop down, however, when you scroll the site the drop down doesn't scroll since it has a fixed position. The problem is half of the links in it are hidden from view.

 

There are a lot of popup issues too, like editing posts and reporting members.

Sometime's the popups won't go away and you have to reload the whole page.

 

I mentioned it. That's what I was referring to when I was talking about the navigation. The mobile site is a joke.

 

It's been a month and they are still there...

 

@digitalpoint It seems they aren't going to be removed. I am switching to an ad free browser.

 

I guess you're browsing a lot on your cell phone. I hate using sites on my cell phone. If I see a site I like I wait till I get home to further check it out on my laptop.

 

I'm always out and about so it's nice to check things out on my phone.

It's really the principal of the matter that @digitalpoint said he would take care of it and never did - heck of a way to lose trust with your users.

I'm actually on my phone right now because I have filezilla running a transfer on my computer and don't want to mess anything up by trying to multi-task.

So, I pick up my phone, take a sip of coffee and wait.

 

I spend about 8 hours a day online, I would say (give or take a couple hours), and I have a desktop and laptop at home (laptop also with me if I travel), an iPad and an Android phone - when I'm travelling, the phone is the easiest to pick up and use on planes, trains and in the car, simply because it doesn't take a lot of space.

 

It's the same for me but when I use my phone I tend to make typo errors as my eyes seem to be going. Time to visit an optician I think.

 

Just figured out the nav links becme visible when turn your phone on its side so it's a wider screen. But yeah, that's hardly practical.

 

What about the other thousands of members? I'm sure it's a high priority for them.

I don't know why you're playing games. Don't you care about your UX?

 

It's a pain in the ass to scroll through 8 ads in each thread for us, too.