About those project ads

[Shar Dundred]

Is there a way to permanently remove a Hive ad from the top of the page when using Hive?
Or at least set preferences or smth?

Call me old fashioned but I think that place should belong to WC3 projects and I don't care to
see that CliCli thing - especially since it is a gif, meaning that when I'm on the move I get increased
loading times and data usage because of something I absolutely don't care to see at all.

Could those ads maybe be categorized in WC3 and non-WC3 ones and we get the ability to just
toggle these on and off? I don't mind seeing the WC3 ones at all, by all means give them as much
space as they want, they're part of the heart of this community.
CliCli is not.

Sure I can just use ad block but it would be a nice feature to have imo.

 

[tillinghast]

dunno about ads but clicli should get the bootboot outta this site imo

 

[General Frank]

Is there a way to permanently remove a Hive ad from the top of the page when using Hive?
Or at least set preferences or smth?

Call me old fashioned but I think that place should belong to WC3 projects and I don't care to
see that CliCli thing - especially since it is a gif, meaning that when I'm on the move I get increased
loading times and data usage because of something I absolutely don't care to see at all.

Could those ads maybe be categorized in WC3 and non-WC3 ones and we get the ability to just
toggle these on and off? I don't mind seeing the WC3 ones at all, by all means give them as much
space as they want, they're part of the heart of this community.
CliCli is not.

Sure I can just use ad block but it would be a nice feature to have imo.

If you have Firefox and use Adblock Plus you can just block that element.

 

[Ralle]

If you have Firefox and use Adblock Plus you can just block that element.

This is the only option for now.

Or at least set preferences or smth?

This is a good idea.

 

[Shar Dundred]

I'd still argue it shouldn't be a gif.

 

[Ralle]

Frostcraft is a GIF and it's actually available to all the hosted projects if they want it .

 

[General Frank]

Frostcraft is a GIF and it's actually available to all the hosted projects if they want it .

Totally agree on the technicality. Both are animated gifs.
But where Frostcraft is a very finely crafted and actually decently looking set of animated images, the CliCli one... is something else entirely, not pleasant to the eye. And I really have to pick my words here correctly.

 

[Kyrbi0]

I would absolutely love to nuke the whole thing from my page... But isn't it kind of the point? Like, advertisements exist to allow something to be advertised, so having a functionality where users could just opt out of it totally defeats the purpose. Especially if money is involved; I can't imagine anyone would be willing to pay Ralle to put up an ad if users can just turn them off arbitrarily.

That being said, I would totally love such a thing. But I can see why it would be unlikely for Ralle to implement.