SITE MIGRATION NOTICE (please read) & other related talk about format

[The Hanging Jowl]

or you know have an ad-payment programme that doesn't slow down your entire computer and take over everything else. I participate on a lot of other boards, and they have small ads at the bottom and the side.

i don't blame these people for wanting ads. everyone needs them to help pay the bills, and then they charge 12.00 for you not to have ads, which i think is a fair compromise and that people are willing to do. however, the argument is that since a move - which was not necessary (if the argument that was presented was that the place looks more modern, people have "likes" which was a big issue" and having truly invisible ignored people) - and the cost is that any time something big in hockey happens, boards have a seizure then quite frankly it is

A: not well money spent on those who run the spent, and
B: not well money spent on those who wish to invest in the site.

so it would make more sense to actually invest in a model that would generate them more money due to being more usable vs. shutting down, among other things.

Precisely. This is why I've never bothered with an ad blocker. My personal time is almost completely consumed by reading online news and forums. I love that they provide this to me (typically) for free and I am happy for them to use ads to fund it. Big difference between that and the silly page blocking thing they have here now.

 

[ULF_55]

Actually I hate my job but it pays very well and for the foreseeable future, I've resigned myself to the fact I have no way out at least a few more years (as in, I have to - I have people depending on me to provide a certain level of income). I complain about it constantly with no apologies. And it ain't me that makes the job miserable, it's certain conditions that I have no control over so, no, it's not on me in any way except maybe for making the mistake 30 years ago to start down this career path.

 

[ULF_55]

you should choose to like it.

 

[Morbo]

biggest issue is advertisement scripts crashing/leaking on the page

 

[HamiltonNHL]

Ad Block Plus for Safari

I dont mind ads as it helps support sites.

But ads where I need to [x] close them are way too annoying.

 

[rojac]

So, become a sponsor for $12 a year and you don’t need to deal with any ads at all.

 

[Warden of the North]

I have to log in every time I visit. Could stay logged in before.

Change your bookmark to the URL. That should fix it.

 

[56 Years No Cup]

Change your bookmark to the URL. That should fix it.

Worked. Thanks.

 

[TheCLAM]

like i said. if the choice is
having a website that looks like it's the year 2018, having likes, and all the other stuff.

vs.
having the boards as they were before, and NOT having crashing servers during you know. actual hockey events when you really want to talk to people, i vote that board.

To be fair Reddit never crashes

 

[Bluelines]

Change your bookmark to the URL. That should fix it.

?? To which URL?

 

[Warden of the North]

?? To which URL?

Sorry, the *new* one.

We have switched to "https"

Delete your old bookmark, create a new one

 

[Bluelines]

Sorry, the *new* one.

We have switched to "https"

Delete your old bookmark, create a new one

Worked, thank you.

 

[Cor]

Uhhhhhhh what happened to the site lol

 

[Walshy7]

Uhhhhhhh what happened to the site lol

whats wrong with it? only difference for me is all the thread titles are blue but everything seems to be working

 

[ACC1224]

Colour is harder to see, fonts are smaller.

 

[93LEAFS]

whats wrong with it? only difference for me is all the thread titles are blue but everything seems to be working

Also altered how certain things are displayed such at the order of the top right corner. Alerts used to be far left. Some of the font and display has also been changed.

 

[DarkKnight]

I like it actually...just don't crash every time anything good happens.

 

[egd27]

I like it actually...just don't crash every time anything good happens.

Stayed up through the Romanuk bombshell.

 

[rent free]

Instead of fixing the logging out issue, the design is changed. Great.

 

[Cor]

whats wrong with it? only difference for me is all the thread titles are blue but everything seems to be working

Everything looks worse.

They changed the positioning of some things for no reason.

 

[Cor]

Instead of fixing the logging out issue, the design is changed. Great.

change your bookmark to https://hfboards.mandatory.com instead of http://hfboards.mandatory.com

 

[Cor]

HF Users: Hey, we just want stable servers during the busy times so we can talk about big happenings

HF: Blue Text?

HF Users: No, we said we wanted better ser-

HF: Need the Alerts, Inbox and Profile buttons flipped around?

HF Users: (Sigh)

 

[Walshy7]

HF Users: Hey, we just want stable servers during the busy times so we can talk about big happenings

HF: Blue Text?

HF Users: No, we said we wanted better ser-

HF: Need the Alerts, Inbox and Profile buttons flipped around?

HF Users: (Sigh)

HF: “oooohhh I get it” turns advertising up to extra obnoxious level

 

[Quarter]

I'm just glad the post numbers are... below the posts now?

I see...

 

[Stand Witness]

I use to pay for sponsorship but after the changes to the site and all the crashes I won't pay. They need to fix that. I have spent much less time on HF.

Also the ads on this site are a bit ridiculous. Pop ups that wouldn't close etc... I just have an ad blocker now.

Maybe just introduce some actual benefits to sponsorship like being able to customize colours, text size, page alignment, hiding sections etc... Like basically any added features that would incentivize a subscription/sponsor. How about a live chat?