What up??

Well a few more ads cannot cause damage, after all we all are highly exposed to ads normally. It is just a matter of getting used too

Originally Posted by Verdi_Lver

I hate google ads

those amazon ones aren't so bad....I could've lived with them

and so do I, they're irrelevent...

Has anybody else noticed a recent slowdown in thread loads due to the ads? I'm thinking it's just me and my connection being weak lately... I've had trouble being kicked off of my instant messenger clients for the past two days and getting timeouts loading ordinary pages, but lately I've been browsing threads and the first bit of the page well load until the first add, then my status bar will say "Loading from assoc.amazon.com" or something like that and the rest of the page won't load for 5-20 seconds when the amazon ads finally show up. Like I said, I think this is just a probably on my system, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this. Anyone?

The exact same thing has been happening to me, both at home and at school.

The ads are fine, the pictures are nice to look at. Gives the brownish colour scheme of YC some spark!

Any delay in page loading accompanied by the lack of appearance of anything below the ads signifies that Amazon is just being a bit slow. Or, perhaps, is down temporarily.

There's nothing we can do it about it, really, save switching back to the old ads. I think chopin's still in a semi-experimental phase with the ads at the moment.

I don't know if it would be possible, but if it were, we could have the ads be the last thing on the page to load, so that way they don't hold up the loading process of the rest of the page.... just in case Amazon has some downtime now and then. I DO like their ads better than Google's, by the way. They're pretty, pictureful, and match the forum skin.

The order in which elements load depends upon their positioning on the page. It might be possible to have the ads load properly after a small delay, but this would require looking into and might even violate the terms of service.

Generally, performance shouldn't be significantly impacted by ads. Sure, if the site hosting them is unreachable, there will be a serious problem, but that shouldn't happen very often at all. If it does keep happening, please let us know - it's useful information.