Paid members can now choose to turn ads on or off

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We are fortunate to have many diyAudio members who have chosen to support the site financially through a yearly membership subscription.

Prior to the migration we allowed those members to turn ads on or turn ads off. Some have let us know that they'd be happy to keep ads on, in order to further support the site.

Due to some limitations in the new software we couldn't provide that functionality until now.

All paid members now have ads turned on by default, but will see a notice at the top of their screen directing them to their user options so they can turn them off if they prefer.

We trust that by giving our paid members the power to choose this is a beneficial move for our members as well as the health of the forum and its ability to remain independent.

Cheers 🙂
 
TMI: taking ads will toss a few more pennies into the forum budget, good. Also I just learned that PartsconnXion and PartseXpress are not the same store, I never noticed that. Yes, there may be less than a dozen DIY-Audio ad-buyers, and "La Lar - Tech deiven yoga clothes for everyone" is not my thing, but the ads are small (on 27" monitor). ("deiven"??)

If you can't/won't pay, or not enough to buy ad-free level, for whatever reason (poverty, poor monetary systems, idiot bankers), I have found that uBlock Origin will satisfactorily block ads on this and most websites. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
 
I thought I was a paid member
AFAIK, the
PaidStar.gif
under your name indicates "Paid"? Except I don't see yours. New-software glitch? Payment burp?

I think https://www.diyaudio.com/community/members/helpdesk.138556/ Helpdesk is a contact who can check your status.
 
If you mean "long thread all on one page with images", that works now, almost.
The issue, which i understand is unresolvable, is with threads containing more than 5000 posts. Displaying them on a single page was a great way to text search and fast scroll. It would be great if such threads could at least be broken into 5000 posts pages.