That only is there if you have added a certain amount of stuff to the database.

I just got on this morning, I thought I made great strides with the homepage yesterday, but Im not even going to go on today getting myself worked up. I have to stay away from the site until this far left thing is fixed. I dragged my screen over, so at least the text would be in the middle of the screen, now I cant get it back for everything else I do.

I am not getting any of those motion ads, just still ads.

I'm not seeing ads and don't have them blocked. However, I do have an ad blocker app that I downloaded and that must be blocking all the ads here. I did that because of those ads that crawl across the screen on some news sites and never even noticed that it blocked them here .

Seedfork said:Go to settings (the little blue silhouette, in the top right corner, go down about seven or eight lines and select no adds.

I must not be chatty enough yet because that is not showing up as an option for me

Once you reach 100 database contributions, you have the option in your preferences to turn off ads.
Those contributions can be any combination of photos, comments, filling in the database details (type, size, color, etc)

Suzanne - Boy do I have a ways to go!!! And I thought I was a pretty chatty person

LOOK...praise be, at least on the main forum pages, I have some ads on the right ( ill never go in pennys again, their adds will get your vertigo kicked up), takes up the space, but right under the ads, pictures, glorious pictures with nice colors. Its the recently added photos. OK now, looking like a garden page. At least the moving ads seem to be staying on those pages, I dont really mind a small still add.

Calif_Sue said:Once you reach 100 database contributions, you have the option in your preferences to turn off ads

hoohoo, I've made 120 contributions!

But I didn't see adds before that either, haven't for ages and I think I just got used to that
Although.. does Dave miss out on something financially because I block all adds..?

Mayo

Mayo62 said:

hoohoo, I've made 120 contributions!

But I didn't see adds before that either, haven't for ages and I think I just got used to that
Although.. does Dave miss out on something financially because I block all adds..?

Mayo

I wondered about that at the time he allowed the threshold users to block them. At one time I think you had to click on the ads from within the sites for any financial credit, but that was a long time ago. I think that click was how an advertiser knew the ad were reaching an audience and from where.

I guess it doesn't make much difference if you download an ad blocker to your computer like I did. I still see ads, but not nearly as many and it apparently eliminated them from NGA completely. I was really after those obnoxious moving ads that aren't fixed on the screen in one spot. I'm not very fond of audio ads either . They make me talk to myself with bad language. Silent videos aren't so bad, but I'd prefer they stand still. I would never click on an ad that's 'in your face' by design.

Legalily said: Suzanne - Boy do I have a ways to go!!! And I thought I was a pretty chatty person

I don't believe that being "chatty" counts. It's everything else that you would write something about, like a regional report, or an edit to the database for a specific plant. Or, adding photos to the database. It's easy to get to 100, and I know you can do it!

adds that move around your screen?????
I'm glad I've never seen that or I would have thrown my shoe at it


Mayo

I think we need to click on the ads in order for Dave to get paid. If that isn't the case, please let us know! I don't have mine blocked on here, and never have, because of that. But, I never see ads because I have an ad blocker, due to some horrible moving ads on some sites. I can't handle those! If I could figure out how to unblock the ads here, I'd do that, and I'd also click on them like I used to before having them all blocked.

I just figured out how to exclude this site from the ad blocker! Apparently I need men's underwear, since that is the only ad that is showing up!

Natalie said:I just figured out how to exclude this site from the ad blocker! Apparently I need men's underwear, since that is the only ad that is showing up!

A lot of web sites ask me to exclude them when I visit. Some block me from even viewing it unless I make an exception. So far, I haven't caved. Those awful active ads are ruining for other advertisers, I think. Though I guess even static photos could be offensive too.

Natalie - it could be worse Over the years I've learned to pretty much ignore ads (unless they are for plants and then they jump right off the screen, grab my hand and force me to put things in my cart ) so I'll just continue to ignore until I reach the threshold

I seem to have got my head around the changes. It do quite like them.

Me, too!

In fact there are several things that work much faster than before for me now that I have customized and saved some links. Still getting used to the iPhone, but on my desktop it's great - Thanks Dave What I'm wondering is, is how much of this I could have done before and just didn't know it until I had to start looking for things

Happy to hear most everyone is finding their way around. I do like the subtle changes Dave has made since the first time I saw the site yesterday. Still having trouble getting used to the forum being all the way to the left, but I guess eventually that will be "normal". Everything works fine ..think I'm just missing all the color we used to have on the site. For someone who looks at "white" (snow) 5 or 6 months of the year color is a necessity!

Several other forum sites that I currently belong to allow for you to customize the color background and font style/size. It would be a great perk especially for those where the white is a little to harsh on the eyes.