I love this site, it’s all I do ‘online’ but goddam, the pop up ads have become an annoying distraction!
Some ads pop up and shrink the screen and sometimes the page willl drop me mid-post and I have to start over.
Anyone else having trouble with this?
Yes, and I can tell you're using iOS. The same exact thing happens to me, and a few other people have mentioned this too. The ads that take over the screen are really bad and make the site practically unusable on my iPhone.
shareWe all need to take the hint and find sinewhere else to go.
shareI hear you, but I like most of the people here. We were already scattered across the internet once, when IMDB split up, so I'm hopeful that Jim will take the initiative to optimize the site for better use on mobile phones and we can avoid something like that again.
shareNobody would care if you went ‘sinewhere’ else to go, but many of us love this site.
where?
shareYeah, I’m on my IPhone which oddly didn’t work for months out of the blue some time ago.
It works fine on Google now.
What are these ads people have been speaking of the last few weeks? I haven't got one yet except for the usual ones on the bottom.
shareOn my iPhone they pop up midscreen on the right and block what you are reading or writing. Then sometimes it just reloads the page without notice.
shareThat sounds incredible annoying. I'd be copying all my text every few seconds in case it reloaded.
shareSame here. It’s absolutely unbearable. If you try to post anything longer than 5-6 sentences, the site re-loads in the middle of you typing and your post is gone. Started happening to me about 90 days ago
shareI only use my kindle fire and my laptop and none of the problems happen with those things.
shareI have the same issue. If you want to write anything that isn’t short you need to write it in short pieces and submit/re-edit or write in a text editor and cut n paste.
shareI don’t understand how that could be Amigo. These tarts on other sites go on and on about their hair and makeup horseshit for pages and it posts, why the hell would MC malfunction like this?
Apparently this problem only effects iPhones. You might try a different browser. I like Opera Browser because configured properly pop-ups should be mostly elimated. Plus it has many options and you can customize Opera just the way you like it. Might be worth a try.
shareI do have an ancient laptop that I had to use for several months because MC didn’t recognize my account on the phone for some reason.
Suddenly the iPhone started working again but it got bugs again.
Major upgrades are required here, my most favorite site on the whole goddam internet, but I don’t expect them…Jim is dead, RIP.
Get a kindle fire, they're small, bigger screen then a phone, and you can do everything on them. I recently realized I could do my banking on it. I even have a 7 inch in my car for audiobooks.
shareJim let me know that the ads are not supposed to work that way and asked me to capture some screenshots of MovieChat on iPhone/IOS in order to show him the problem. I've done that, but I have a very old phone (iPhone 8) and wanted to check what others are using.
It would be helpful to know which version of iPhone and IOS you and VinceD and other are running.
Hello Mod5,
I'm using an iPhone 12 with iOS 17.1.2
I noticed that some browsers performed better than others. The DuckDuckGo browser worked the best for me; I didn't encounter any issues with it. Opera seemed okay, but Mozilla and Safari both had numerous issues.
I hope that might be useful.
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