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I went on to TSR today to find out that the sidebar became wider for some reason. It also says at the top, " If you are seeing strange behavior with the layout, especially with the left navigation, this was caused by recent changes. Please hard refresh (often Ctrl + F5) and it should resolve itself." I've pressed Ctrl+F5 many times; no dice. What are these "recent changes", might I ask?




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Bavoomian~

Movement of ad placements to comply with Google's policies. Part of that meant making the left navigation wider so as long as you're seeing the background of the navigation cover the entire new width, you should be good. The visual bug I was referring to was that there was a 40px gap in the background before the hard refresh.

What happened to the "SELECT A LETTER!" image featuring a caricature of Dazz?

That was one of the other changes we were required to make. Google was flagging it as "drawing unnatural attention to ads" since there was an ad above the letter bar it was pointing to. We thought that particular violation was stupid but our hands were tied.

(12-02-2022, 11:04 AM)Petie Wrote: [ -> ]That was one of the other changes we were required to make. Google was flagging it as "drawing unnatural attention to ads" since there was an ad above the letter bar it was pointing to. We thought that particular violation was stupid but our hands were tied.

You know, it should have been kept.

As I said, we didn't have a choice. We were in violation of Google's policies and they handle our ad serving so we needed to comply or ads stop working and the site goes away as a whole instead.

You'd think that they'd want as much attention on their ads as possible...

They want legitimate interest in ads and that animation was seen as directing users to click them which is not legitimate traffic. I don’t think that’s what was actually happening but it’s what they said.