Just started getting popups from this outfit tonight, and only on SimHQ forum. Anyone else? Any ideas? This is my flying computer and I try to keep it clean by going to very few websites with it. In fact, verifying that this is only happening here is the first time I've visited more than the forums, Yahoo, and OBD's (WOFF/WOTR) sites in months.

Yep, I'm getting them too.
Probably something to do with google adds.

Yep. Just in the last 30 odd minutes. Be nice to see a SimHQ mobile app.

LOL! I see you are a dreamer.

Getting them too, at least they are in a language that I can't read

What do I want to know about a 96 year old woman that bought her own house ( roughly translated from the info link)

Time for the ad blocker me thinks.

Getting it too. I run SimHQ excluded from the Adblocker, but this is annoying enough that I might reactivate it.

Good to know that I'm not going . Well, not about this, at least. And that it's not my computer.

Disabling Javascript makes them go away, but then you can't use the full editor for the reply function.
I really don't understand why SimHQ doesn't do a Patreon thing or so for an ad-free site. These animated pop-ups are terrible, distracting, and make me want to visit this site less often.

You mean a subscription based service then? I'd say about 75% of the current SimHQ community would be gone if that were done. It's just my educated guess.

I don't mind the fixed position ads but these floaters are annoying.

It depends on what the site offers, and what it charges.
"The old" SimHQ had sim related articles on a regular basis and was a useful source of information. That stopped a while ago, now it's mostly a place to hang out with like-minded gamers. Fair enough, there's some use in that too. I'm just saying, if you make it a Patreon thing and you make contributions voluntary we'll see if there will be enough of us willing to pay member fees to keep this club house ad free, or at least to keep the most annoying forms of ads at bay. My impression is, everything's teetering along on inertia here, and without much work on the forum software or other site maintenance. Eventually all it'll take is a minor disruption for everything to fall apart. There aren't that many sim-oriented general gaming websites with forum around like there used to be some twenty years ago when there was Frugal's world, CombatSim.com, SimHQ and more. Soon we ma be left with the only "choice" to sign up with developer or publisher-run forums, all of them with more or less significant restrictions on what you can post there and how. How much do we value an independent site where no corporate PR manager or even a developer with a frail ego can kick-ban you from the forum because you dared to criticize the latest release or merely pointed out a bug or whatever. Or maybe everything these days is on farcebook and I'm just a dinosaur, a bitter clinger to privacy.

At the end of the day this is our choice, as long as we're given the chance to give this site a new impulse. Or we do nothing and witness the slow zombiefication until one day a minor push leads to a closure.

I think there's little harm in SimHQ signing up for Patreon, and then offering clear deals, like "$1 per month" contributes 1% of the running costs of the forum server or whatever, so there's a clear connection between operating costs of the site and how much each payment helps to keep the site alive. There could be an "ad-free ticker" that shows how much of a reserve there is to afford "not" having ads on the site. I think that there's a subset of visitors here that would be willing to pay if they only have an idea how much their contributions help. Does the site cost $50.- to operate every month? $500.-? $5,000.-? If it is on the high end, then maybe looking for sponsors could be an alternative. But crowdfunding via Patreon could help just as well.

Added adblock, floater gone. I don't mind those other ads but the floater is far too annoying and set up that way for accidental clicks.

Bingo. Social media and more specifically Reddit has been replacing the traditional message board forum websites.

Well, that's not a force of nature. It is within our powers to change this. If not the big trend, at least the way how we express our preferences.

Niche users can always go against the mainstream and use whatever platforms they choose to use for communication. So yes, you can change things within the niche but not the overall mainstream trend.

That's just what I wrote...?!

The mainstream herd is so boring.

I got mine from a weather site. The floaters are a pain any idea how to delete them ?

Mostly but I was making an emphasis on differentiating between what niche groups want vs. what mainstream groups want. I wasn't trying to steal any of your thunder.

I am only getting the floater on Chromium-based browsers that I use (Chrome and the new Microsoft Edge), but am not getting them on Firefox, from what I can tell.