This couldn't be more annoying... meaning I have blocked all these 'audio' ads supposedly but they are still coming up so I have to go and check campaign per campaign... but I have to admit it has to be even more annoying having to 'hear' the actual ads so I'm checking...

BTW, I'm back home... just got here a few hours ago, catching up with everything as you can imagine after 3 weeks of vacation (not from TS entirely but the rest of stuff) so you will hear again from me on a daily basis as it used to be.

BTW, I have also heard you are having trouble with some Tribal ads slowind down the pages... I will talk to them tomorrow about this issue.

As for the audio ads, those should be gone but please let me know if you still see them around. Thanks!

OK currently in opera the tribalfusion one at the top isn't there, but the space reserved for it is. In IE the box where it appears says page cannot be displayed.

Right now on this thread I clicked go to first unread post, and it took me about 60 seconds to get it to jump down here because it was waiting on itxt.vibrantmedia.com

So for me, tribalfusion isn't really a problem as of recent, it just never loads. itxt.vibrantmedia.com is the one that kills my browsing expierence on this site because it effectively makes the go to first unread post thing worthless. I can manually scroll down a page with 40 posts per page (or whatever the max you can set it to is) and still have a minute before it would go on its own. Sometimes it only delays for a few seconds, more often than not its up at about 60 seconds, and occationally over 90 seconds.

Also I have noticed it seems the itxt one almost never (or never) occurs if I don't click that go to first unread post link.

That's a good point Dave, I always go to first unread post. And 10 times out of 10 I scroll down on my own anyway, and beat the loading of vibrantmedia.
And sometimes when I try to type in my response it goes really slow, and jumpy, because it is still trying to load. So I have to hit the STOP button to make it quit loading so I can type in my response without it being all jumpy.

Heh, yep, I think thats Opera though (if you are still using that). Because I got about 1/3 of that last post I had typed when it was all jerky like that before the itxt loaded.

I will talk to Vibrant Media guys and see if there is a work around for that problem, I can tell you however that I have used the forums under different configurations, ISPs and browsers and never had that problem... I never use Opera though.

As for Tribalfusion slow down, here's the response I got today:

Now it has happened 3 times when I click on a link here in the forums that I have to sit and wait 3 minutes for the a.as-us.falkag.net ad!

This is just crazy... Browser is Opera 7.23, and it literally does nothing during those 3 minutes... I only geta white screen, and the message that it is queued for transfer... Then when it is finnished after 3 minutes it only take a couply of sends to load the "real" data... (even on my dialup..)

I too am having problems with that a.as-us.falkag.net ad, although I don't wait as long as Per I do wait a while. Getting a pretty consistent 30-31 seconds to load that ad up. After the 30 the page does load the text (previously there is nothing - just blank page)

Then also after it loads I wait another 22 seconds to load up z1.adserver.com.

I am using the same browser as Per, but I also switched back to IE to see if it was just Opera related. Interesting thing happened then, the page didn't load up (just like in Opera) and it poped up my dial up connection box, I hit cancel because I just use my cable rather than dial up and then the page loads up. But it always wants to dial up before anything loads on the page.

Same here with a.as-us.falkag.net - just to let you know.

I have uploaded new code for the a.as-us.falkag.net ads that come from Rydium Network. Your problems might have to do with their servers slowing down or something similar but I have replaced their slower Javascript code with a more isolated Iframe code which back us up in those cases.

Ads have been fine for me today

It appears that talking ad is still here. I don't get it that often, but I just got it a minute ago. I think we need to hang these guys by their necks for creating such a way to advertise.