Small nitpick: Add placeholder space for ad banners at top of forum

[Turtle]

This is a very small nitpick about these forums, very first world problems, but is still a usability issue.

So many times browsing late night, with my slower reactions, I'm just about to click on a link when suddenly the ad banner loads and the whole forums jumps down an inch on screen.

Can you please add some placeholder space prior to loading for the ad banners up top? Might also be useful to use the placeholder space as a reminder to those with adblockers still turned on to turn them off if they want to support the site.

[CeeKay]

I notice the same issue on my Windows 8 phone.  I'll go to tap a board, suddenly the ad will kick in and I'm staring at farley2k's ugly mug.  or ugly lack of mug.  maybe that's why he has no mug shown because it's so ugly.....

[MonkeyFinger]

Already picked that nit.

[MonkeyFinger]

It's not like the ads are random sizes or anything, why not reserve the space needed for them up top? Then the speed of your ad server becomes a moot point and all this jumpy jump jump goes away.

[ATB]

It's not like the ads are random sizes or anything, why not reserve the space needed for them up top? Then the speed of your ad server becomes a moot point and all this jumpy jump jump goes away.

It is REALLY annoying.

[CeeKay]

you could have the ads randomly move to the bottom, so the page jumps up instead of down every now and then....

[Turtle]

Now this has gone from a small annoyance to a big one, mainly because it's such a constant issue. I visit these forums regularly and every few times I load a page, it gets timed almost perfectly that the banner loads right before I click. That happening multiple times a day, every day wears thin.

[Ralph-Wiggum]

Now this has gone from a small annoyance to a big one, mainly because it's such a constant issue. I visit these forums regularly and every few times I load a page, it gets timed almost perfectly that the banner loads right before I click. That happening multiple times a day, every day wears thin.

It always jumps right before I click as well, causing me to always click on the "GAMINGTREND" logo. At the main page is getting more hits!

[th'FOOL]

Sorry about the annoyance, guys. Wrangling the code of this tired-ass forum software is never as easy as it seems and I've got other things I'm working on right now. I'll try to get to it at some point so bear with me.