• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

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As most everybody, when I visit I hit the "new posts" button. There is usually several pages, so I start on page one, read whatever threads I'm interested in, back click out of the individual threads, and it returns back to page 1 (of say 7) then after all are read I go to page 2, do the same thing then click all the way back to page 2 (and if I clicked once more it would go back to page 1 of 7) go to page 3, same and so on. I can continually back or forward click the browser button, and return to the original 7 new pages that are in my browser.
Well the past couple days when I do that, when I get done with all the reading and posting in the first page of new pages, when I back click to get back to the first page of the original 7 searched pages in my browser, it shows the "nothing found in your search" message, the same one that shows up if you hit the new posts button and there are no new posts. The 7, 5, or whatever, new pages are gone. So basically at this time I am only able to catch one page worth of new posts, even if there were more. Anybody know what the heck is going on? I haven't changed anything on my end that I know of. I download and installed an update to windows media player a while back, but don't see how that could affect anything. It sucks missing 3, 4, 7 pages of new posts.
 
I usually right click and then open a new window from the new posts thread so that I don't disrupt anything.
 
I believe that the time limit for the "visit" is set at 30 minutes, so if you click on "new posts" when you first arrive, then just keep hitting the back button, that time runs out. So if more than 29 minutes elapses between the times you hit the "new posts" button, it resets itself to only the new posts in the last 30 minutes.

I hope that makes sense........I know what I'm trying to say, I'm just not explaining it very well, lol. I know someone posted a very clear explanation for this not all too long ago......if I find it, I'll let ya know. ;)
 
That would make sense Cathy. If that is the case though, it's just weird that it started doing it like two days ago. Either the time limit has been adjusted recently, or all of a sudden I'm consistently taking the full amount of time just on the first page of new posts. Weird. I'll try to search out some kind of post you mentioned, it must have been on page 2 through 7 of my new posts, as I've seemed to have missed it :rofl:
 
Nothing in that department has been changed that I am aware of here. That setting is a tradeoff since it seems to also control other variables in the display. Number of currently online members being one of them. So if I were to make the time limit shorter, it would be a more accurate representation of how many members are truly online. However everyone would have to be speed readers to complete reading new posts before it would timeout.
 
WebSlave said:
Nothing in that department has been changed that I am aware of here. That setting is a tradeoff since it seems to also control other variables in the display. Number of currently online members being one of them. So if I were to make the time limit shorter, it would be a more accurate representation of how many members are truly online. However everyone would have to be speed readers to complete reading new posts before it would timeout.
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That's what I figured WS. Something must be causing my browser to reset cached pages or something to that effect. Though I don't know what's different that I've done the last couple days.
 
You could use a browser that supports tabbed browsing (Firefox, IE7, Mozilla, Opera (I think)). I load the new posts and just open a tab for the posts that interest me. Once I have opened a tab for all of the stuff that I want to see, I start reading them.

It looks something like this:
 

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