Hai.
It's intefering.
See it:

The ad

it definitely is stopping me from pressing the links below it.

not just the links.. u cant just click anywhere for like 5secs..

damn.. to edit this post also took 5 secs. before i can click n type here..

EDIT: affecting the links below it ONLY

This post has been edited by ibu1980: Oct 9 2006, 04:42 AM

its pretty annoying...i cant click anythin on the surface covered by it!

Me here too...I think its :
1. So annyoing
2. Slow down my surfing cos must see that adver blocking link
3. Slow down my pc (beza if got advert or not cos my pc already slow put more flash advert made it more slower)
4. If click any place in page it will go to motorola website cos kinda annyoing me (cos i click to go to other lyn thread instead i go to motorola website)

P/S : i know this adver is income for lyn to stay alive and become free forum but i hope u can used better/other advert method than slow down my pc and made me menyampah to motorola...i think advert is to made u feel love to product not hating it rite lol...

Juz my 2 cents

the ads were doing fine before this i guess.. today only i am facing this problem.. what about u guys?

ive been clicking the ads for like 10 times each day
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
got abit angry

yalor b4 motorola advert...i has no problem with other advert but motorola advert is juz annoying and made me hating more motorola...and i think that advert is juz plain stupid...sorry for my word...juz in my opinion only

its kind of like popup adv
zzzzzzzzz

Thank god not only me got this.
When using Netscape ok.

Anyway, the ad really made browsing very annoying.

Not just that...problems even while clicking.

This post has been edited by Raikkonen: Oct 9 2006, 04:57 AM

it's very irritating. it would be fine if i'm surfing astalavista or some xxx site. i seriously hope that it will be removed.

I think ok already.
LYN already solved it.

a screenshot is fine too.

Same thing happened for Safari here, below is the screenshot showing the actual area cover by the advert. Everything under the grey area is un-clickable.

it's fvcking annoying

that's the main reason i stopped surfin LYN altoghether for the past few weeks

the motorola ad, the astro ad, the nike ad

all those flashes - i have to wait for 1 minute b4 i can click on any link

and not to mention cpu resources taken and stupid repating aimation

i think the astro ad was intended to put in that place purposely. everytime i want to click the Lowyat link, it will pop up before i managed to click it. ended up clicking the ads multiple times. i got annoyed as it disrupted my surfing.

being supportive of lyn, i clicked the ad (lyn will get referral bonus). but it didn't go away after that. how many more times i have to click it?

i mean, OK fine, i dont mind ads popping up...but could it be dons in a way that it doest bother our surfing? or mebe, once we click it, it will go away? its so hard to surf round LYn wifout clikcing on it countless of times...

when will it be removed.... or at least minimise the sizelor.....

I tot something wrong with my firefox, apparently only firefox have this problem, using firefox's IE extension no problem. ^^"" admin can rectify this?

im using firefox and this is affecting me as well.
can someone do something about this?
at least add a close button so i can click links below it.

the same problem for me. i now cannot click on the grey area, which have the latest post.

reporting same problem on Lolifox (*�Д`)ﾊｧﾊｧ

now i cant even read any newest PM, how am i gonna reply ppl?
im buying something from them

I thikn should be fine now already, right? just the alignment lari sikit...

now even worse....its at the extreme left

Now problem solved. I think se7en have removed that thing.

ok guys, the alignment problem was due to css caching, basically we updated the css file, but your browsers still cached the old file. A control + shift + F5 or a Ctrl + F5 on IE will fix it.

The unclickable links below the ad is a firefox/mozilla specific problem, its being worked on now. The ads have been removed till we get it fixed.

Frankly speaking, we accepted this ads on a trial basis. The emphasis on trial, so there is bound to be a lot of problems that have to be sorted out as it comes up. We also had no idea of how these ads would behave or intefere with the forum. We will not be accepting ads of this nature in the future, however, due to the costs of producing these ads, we're bound to honour the trial period ( 1 week) that we agreed to.

Also, the motorola ad is capped, which means you only get to see it expanded one time and it will revert to a normal ad after that.

Do bear with us. We're sorry for the inconvinience.

the links not clickable in firefox issue has been resolved. Do inform us if you stumble on any other problems.

[feedback]
yep, the motorola ads looks fixed in Lolifox(firefox mod) browser

This post has been edited by e-jump: Oct 9 2006, 12:50 PM

i am having the same problem

i cant click on my pm

help........

could you be more specific? what browser are you on and why can't you reply ur PM?

when i recieve a new pm, i cant click on it, normaly the mouse cursor will change to a hand symbol when we point the mouse at message title right ? but mine cant... i need to refresh it 3 times, them i can click on it

i am using mozzila firefox 1.5.0.7

please help, thanx

you're confusing me.

is this a problem you had in the morning, or are you still having it now?

We *think* we have already solved this. But if you still can't click your PM messages even now, then we might have to look into it. Could you provide a screenshot of the page where the links don't work?

The Motorola Flash Ad slow down every pages I go >_<

Yup...just post a screenshot and the version of your browser.
My Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7 ok already.
But haven't receive any PM yet...so don't know whether will have the same problem
or not.

EDIT: My PM works fine. Problem solved.

This post has been edited by Raikkonen: Oct 9 2006, 02:07 PM

Just relating my experience.

I'm using firefox. It was annoying on last week as the Motorola ad keep on covering the Active Threads and New Threads section almost every single time i reload Lowyat main page (not the forum main page), but now no more.

Currently I do notice a slowdown in forum. Sometime i get script warning message as well (view pic attached) , just half an hour ago and also happen on last week. But i'm not sure whether it is the main page or the forum page.

the slowness on the site is due to the server being heavily loaded. the ads are hosted independently by the advertisor.

Yes, the links issue happened on the main page, as well as the forums. We think we've already sorted it out.

The script timing out error is firefox specific, and it *only* happens if you leave your page idle for a specific amount of time (30 minutes i think). Its not a critical error, just the script timing out. IE doesn't display it, firefox does.

Just to report, the ad work fine with my firefox now...thank admin.

se7en, any chances of NOT using those flashy ads after the 1-week trial period?

seriously, it annoys

i do understand the need of the revenue gained from the ads

but those kind of ads (astro, motorola) are invading my life. it takes up huge resources on my old computer, eating up valuable batt life out of my ultra portable, and is practically visually disturbing

can we have the traditional, simple flash ads rather than these? it's not like we are gonna click the adas anyway (heck, those who surf LYN should be internet savvy guy who doesn't click ads rite?)

Yes, lucifah. Next Tuesday should be the last day of the ads.

We've heard you all loud and clear

i think i did mention it above, these ads were accepted on a 1 week trial basis, which we had to honour. We already made the decision not to accept these type of ads long before they were activated on the site. This would be the first and last time these ads are used.

when the motorola ads pops up, you click to close it mah...i did that and that didn't interfere with my browsing in LYN although i must admit, it's slower than usual...

i just use a firefox add on to remove unwanted items.

sorry to reply late, i just check my inbox, everything ok already

thank you for your concern

is that problem cause by the advertisment ?

I can't type my username and password in login page because Motorola's ad blocking it

btw, I'm using IE 6

sometimes my firefox gets this warning message about a script not responding or something . only happened after the motorola ad came

if it happens again i'll post up a screenie

yeah i got that message about a script too but i dunno if that have to do with the ads...


--problem solved..install adblock plus no more weird thing happen...thank fariz

This post has been edited by PhibeRoptiC: Oct 10 2006, 08:28 PM

script timouts r not critical

to u guys who r having probs, try clearing ur cache manually

This post has been edited by e-jump: Oct 10 2006, 11:54 PM

Oddly enough the ad works fine in my Musang Api. Sure, it gets in the way, but it obediently goes back to it's "kennel" when I click "close".

Sit, bubu, sit. Good dog.

that adv piss me off now..its worse than b4..
p/s: nike adv is same too...create a box and block my link

browser: firefox



This post has been edited by xen0: Oct 11 2006, 06:19 PM

this happens on my Firefox on my linux rig.

what's happening to me is that i can click the lowyat link but not kopitiam etc links.. why ah ?

Lowyat.NET -> Front Desk -> Main Site/Forum Feedback and Helpdesk

you'll see something like the above, the areas below the advert will be blocked.

Seriously, i never occur this kinda problem, was using FireFox from the begining.
Do you all use theme for your FireFox?
I'm using a custon theme and everything turn out nicely for me since the first day.

mine's on default.

Okay i've tested already.
When i'm on default also no problem.

i think it's good for me. my computers do NOT have macromedia installed , so it helps me NOT surf LYN during uni.

what to do if the ad doesnt load and all you see is a white box?

yitjuan, think about it when you need macromedia to view a website you wanted so badly.
Hehe, no offence

Using Firefox 1.0.7

Experience the same issue with the DIGI ad on the main page.

I couldn't click on the most recent topics till the 9th topic.

Any solutions as yet?

use maxthon 2.0 !! block the ads