It makes me wonder why people are so hellbent on ads. What's wrong with them?

Not to mention, I havent seen any issues with the sidebar so far other then the interesting perspective of the posted image.

I don't mind ads when they're unobtrusive. All the FA ads show up for me except one. The IMVU ad oddly never showed up for me, but had it, I would have blocked it.

The biggest issue is that it really messes up the scale of art. I can't count on someone having 800px wide view of something, because it will mess it up. It's a really wide ad for something that should be much thinner. But even a tall banner ad is terrible because it really does distract from the art. A better placement would be below the image but before the text content.

But no, IMVU insisted FA put it there, in that resolution. No apologies.

Not really mad, just more face palmy than anything. As a graphics designer, that's just such an amateur and bad thing to do.

Unfortunately I get the feeling it's not about the art, and entirely about rubbing our faces into our new, bratz doll overlords.

I totally said the same thing to my friend, in her journal yesterday.

its obtrusive, I would have much preferred a banner ad between the image and the text, or up top above the tool bar or something. But the side bar is just a completely terrible idea.

Another great Ad blocker I was introduced to by comment to that very same journal is Ghostrey.com Not only do they have an intelligent ad blocker that you can pick and choose which company's ads or type of ad is visible or blocked. but rather than selling your personal browsing data to marketing specialists or data brokers, they compile data on ads you choose to allow or block and send that information to the marketing companies instead.

IMHO much more productive form of information for marketers, and much more secure for my browsing.

The ad placement isn't the issue.

It's that there's not a sidebar that takes up about 30% of horizontal screen space next to a submission, takes up over 150% of screen space (as in, an entire screen and a half) vertically..

And is 90% blank space. EVEN WITH AN AD.

If you're still using IE in 2015, you deserve whatever inconvenience you have to put up with.

Unless your workplace still uses it, in which case... well, you should be whacked with a wet trout for browsing FA at work.

But seriously, I don't get why everyone's whining about ads. ABP is really not that hard to use.

Even blocked, it still takes up a lot of empty space it never did before. A banner ad would have been better and less problematic, but IMVU insisted on the extra wide square.

I literally didn't know about there being an ad there until I looked into it. I wondered why FA's site was kinda borked in view and thought something didn't load in the CSS. Now I know why it looked bad. :P

Despite all that, I do allow FA to run it's own ads. I didn't even block IMVU personally, it was automatic.

Oh, I haven't had that - because with AdBlock on Chrome, I was able to right-click on the blank space and block THAT as an ad. I just had to take a couple of extra steps. Now my FA looks like this, no scripts required. That's why I like the AdBlocker that comes on Chrome - you have a lot of control over exactly what's blocked and what isn't.

Oh wow, is that the beta UI they keep touting or is that all on your end? I never bothered with the beta at least because I assumed it was still too buggy.

That's how the beta looks, with ads blocked. I mean, it does have a few bugs here and there, but they're taking it pretty seriously this time.

Honestly, aside from the ads (which I haven't really seen because adblock), I haven't noticed anything but improvement since the site was sold. That just got pushed aside by the usual furry drama storm hehe.

I suspected as much, I just hadn't seen it yet. Been rather busy (hence lack of content from me).

But from the things I hear, they're actually updating the site finally. I'm impressed, but then they did this before only to stagnate. I'm still of the camp of "I'll believe it when I see it" for a brand new FA.

Admittedly, I'm holding out for next year so I can make a congrats piece celebrating FA 3.0/Project Ferrox's Decennial anniversary. :P

You are my hero. Thank you!

Credit goes to  boothale for the scripts! He's the star of FA now. :D

I still have no idea what these now, apparently intrusive ads even look like! Been using ad blockers for years!

I had to actually dig to get a picture of the ad from someone else just because I wasn't going to disable my blocker. :P

lol. Yeah. I still haven't seen the ad in any image or otherwise. Not gotta turn off either of my blockers.

Well I use adblock on IE and I have any problem. FA is perfectly clean, as before IMVU =3