Unable to post in the banner ad thread

[DavidR8]

For some unknown reason I'm unable to post in this thread:

We're Going to Try Some Banner Ads for Guest (Not Logged In) Users

Hey folks, This is a heads up that we're going to be trying some banner ads on the website. (Don't panic just yet!) Who will be impacted? This will be limited to anyone who is not logged into an account. --> To be clear, you do not have to be a supporting member in any form to have an ad-free...

canadianhobbymetalworkers.com

The reply box is present, the post reply button is clickable but nothing happens when I click it. I can post in my own threads and others but not the one linked above.

 

[VicHobbyGuy]

I could post there just now...once I scrolled past all the ads.....

 

[DavidR8]

So my ad blocker is preventing posts to some threads but not all.
This is completely new behaviour as I've been using Ad Blocker Ultimate for the last three years and only had this problem today.

 

[Six O Two]

test

 

[DavidR8]

test

You passed

 

[Six O Two]

Weird, I'm getting the same problem in this section. Can't post replies unless I disable my adblocker (i'm running Firefox + ublockorigin and ABP plugins).

Also, each time I hit the ads thread, or this one for the first time, I gues a 'Page could not be loaded' message. If I do a hard refresh (ctrl+f5), the page then loads..

 

[DavidR8]

I'm only seeing this behaviour as of today. Yesterday was just fine, today is FUBAR.

 

[Jwest7788]

Just wanted to double check that this is all sorted out now, correct?

 

[DavidR8]

Yup, all is normal again Josh, thanks for checking!

 

[Six O Two]

Oddly, I'm still not able to post in this specific thread (and the banner ads announcement thread) unless I disable my ad blocker. All other threads seems fine. I also still get the 'Page could not be loaded' message when I hit these two specific threads. But ctrl+f5, and the page loads fine.

 

[YYCHM]

Test

 

[Jwest7788]

Spent some time with a colleague brainstorming on this, but..

But ctrl+f5, and the page loads fine.

..this makes this impossible for me to diagnose.

It sounds like it might be something like a browser extension conflict, but I have no idea how to begin to tackle this.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Six O Two]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty much how I feel about it. It's a non-issue to me. I definitely appreciate you spending a bit of time thinking about it, but totally understand that it's not worth troubleshooting something that very likely might be something specific with my setup.

 

[Susquatch]

Pretty much how I feel about it. It's a non-issue to me. I definitely appreciate you spending a bit of time thinking about it, but totally understand that it's not worth troubleshooting something that very likely might be something specific with my setup.

& @Jwest7788

Since Ctrl-F5 goes much further than just F5 and completely reloads the browser cache for that web page, and since the site works after doing that, I'd suggest the problem is indeed specific to your PC.

If I were to guess, your ad blocker is deleting what it thinks is a cached ad which then prevents the rest of the page from loading what it thought was already in memory but wasn't because the ad-blocker deleted it. Ctrl-F5 reloads everything including the piece the ad-blocker deleted so the web page works.

So ya, I think it is specific to your pc and your ad-blocker.

No biggie, just Ctrl-F5 and you are off and running.

Just my thoughts on it for whatever they are worth.