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I think CWillie's hit on a solution. I wasn't trying to minimize the width of the screen but when I did, it stopped that blue bar from expanding and always showing the ad above it. To test, I expanded the width again, and the blue bar started that annoying and irritating expansion down over more of the Q & A section of the page.

Now with the width of the screen contracted, I can block out both the ad above the blue menu bar as well as the ads to the right of the text portion.

Great! That annoying bar sliding up and down over the text was giving me eye strain.
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Now on my computer, an old desk top, the blue bar is stationary and the advertisement is stationary.... only overs maybe 15% of my screen.

There is a lot of white space on the far right and on the far left.... oh I just now found a way to remove the icons on the far left, the one that shows the F and the bird, and whatever that white cross thingee. I never use those, and found the "hide" to get rid of it :)
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That blue bar with the ad moving up and down is really annoying
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Are you on a desktop? If you hold your mouse at the edge of the minimized window you should see arrows appear, then you can click and hold to drag the sides/bottom of the window larger (or smaller) until you have a size you like.
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FF, that is exactly what the rest of us are complaining about, the blue bar and accompanying ad (if you aren't blocking the ad) are covering 1/3 of the screen. God forbid the ad isn't visible 100% of the time ;P
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CWillie, I tried minimizing my screen to resize it and manipulate the space the top of the page add takes up but couldn't do it. Once minimized, it's truly minimized, just an icon left. The nuisance ads are the last straw in my opinion, and I have other forums I like much better that don't tolerate trolls.
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One thing I notice today with the software is that the blue bar at the top of the screen scroll down along with me.... thus I don't need to scroll back up to the top of the page to click on "ask a question". That I like :)
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I posted here a long time before I finally changed my avatar, partly because I couldn't be bothered, partly because I couldn't decide what to change it to and partly because the ones provided by the site seemed more anonymous.
One thing I don't like is people who won't provide even the most basic background info about themselves, I can understand if you are only passing through but some people hang around for quite a while and unless you have been following them it can be hard to know where they are coming from.
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One thing I have noticed, lot of new writers but no avatar pictures :( I don't know if those writers are "drive-by" writers or people who are interested in staying on the website as a regular but don't know how to place a photo.
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Ads are a nightmare on an iPhone
Better with the iPad but I needed to use my Laptop at work to load a jpg avatar
It wouldn't load it from the iPad
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Cwillie and GA, After having been patient for so long about the website irritations and unreliability, here I am, still suffering through, because I would miss you all too much.
However, I have limited even attempting to help new posters, because, their questions feel disingenuous, somehow. Perhaps too many trolls.
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GA, I noticed it yesterday and was seriously considering dropping the site because of it until I found my fix to work around it. And dropping the site would be a bitter pill for me when you consider this is my only social outlet and it keeps me (somewhat) sane.
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This nonsense just began a few moments ago. When I slide up and down the screen, the actual question and answer portion slides up underneath the title (like tectonic plates are subducted) and the everpresent ad above it, which then expands. It's now about 1/3 of the page. For something that I never read, it's just a waste of space.

As I'm typing right now, the only worthwhile portion is the message response box. All the rest is just more advertisements.

This is now not worth the effort of even reading the posts, let alone bothering to respond. If the people responsible for this think it's going to increase revenue, they might want to rethink this intrusiveness. It's going to make it harder to post, and they want the posts for their magazine.

So far from these so-called "exciting" updates, we still don't have a larger response box, we don't have edit or delete capacity, but guess what - the ads are bigger! Wow!
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I have hacked a fix for the bouncing banner ad, I minimized my window. I had to fiddle with the size a bit but now the ad is off screen and the post I am reading is centred on the screen, much easier to read and less annoying!
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cwillie: yep, me too. I have adblocker activated, but still the info that I want keeps getting more and more squished. I don't use my phone for AC for precisely that reason.
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Is it just me or has anyone else notice the banner ads and menu are now taking up almost half the page even when you scroll down, and of course the side bar already took up 1/3 of the page on the right.
I HATE sites that squeeze the things you actually want to see off to the bottom of the page, 3/4 ads and useless crap and 1/4 what you came there for, must be really fun on a phone.
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I've found that I can't delete PMs from the oldest forward if they're on the subsequent pages. I have to delete the most recent and move backward.

CWillie, as to caching, I don't know about that specifically but I'm sure that everything that's posted here is backed up daily on their servers, which likely means it's there forever. I rather doubt also that anyone would go through the servers and delete the messages that are archived, so the junk/spam ones are probably there as well.
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FF, I noticed that, but I thought I had somehow neglected to dele them. I also click try to stop following threads that have run their course and find them reappearing from my "following" list. It goes to show that everything we say or do is cached somewhere.
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Is anyone else getting old deleted messages showing up on their Message Board? Today I had some that were from 2015 that I had erased back in 2015.
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I only get the error page if I try to go to a thread that has been removed. Sometimes the threads are under maintenance for a while or are deleted permanently because they are spam.
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When I get an AC email and click on the link, many times it will say "that page doesn't exist". The error page is on the AC website.
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cwillie, oh my gosh, I have noticed that same thing.... whenever I was reading an article and go back to the forum, somehow the print on the forum was smaller. I thought it was only me that had that.... now I am not alone :)
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Why doesn't the original comment have a date stamp? I suggested that a few years ago and was told it was a good idea. So, why wasn't that included in this update?
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FF, I just push my chair back farther from the desk!
The funny thing is that when I go back to the forum it seems too small and I think I should be enlarging the font... no, any larger and everything starts to fall off the side of the page. LOL
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Has anyone noticed a lot of one word original postings with nothing written in the body of the post? Wonder what is up with that?

And how I wish the Articles font was smaller. It's become so hard to read that I don't go in there on a regular basis.
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One other hint about the log out... make sure the menu bar is at the very top of the screen before you open it because you can not scroll down the page at all once you open it and those extra few lines can make all the difference.

The log out and non uniformity of font size between the forums and the rest of the site are a continuing frustration for all of us... I hope someone is still trying to resolve these issues??
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I minimized the screen before and was able to log out. But this time, it won't. I deleted my history....
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Book, it is at the very bottom of the drop down menu but will not show up unless you make your screen smaller because the drop down menu will not scroll down to the bottom if your screen is too large.
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Most of the times, I use the iPad to come here. Today, I'm using my laptop. I cannot get the "Logout" to appear on the left side so that I can log out. I've minimized the screen, maxed it and can't scroll all the way down to click on "log out". I know that some websites also have the log-out option on the bottom of the website. I scrolled down. Nothing.

Well, how about if I go to my Profile? I went to Edit Profile, it's not there.

What if I click on my icon on the top right? Oh! Guess what everyone?! I just found a shortcut to my message board! All this time, I've been hitting the 3 horizontal lines on the top left, scroll down to my Wall. Ha! Well... I still need to log out. If All Else Fails, I will just have to Clear my History. sigh....
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On the profile page include instructions on how to upload your own avatar! That wouod be so belpful to so many!
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