• 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.

Problems with classifieds

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I've been having issues with accessing the classified control panel and attaching images. Out of the last 6-7 times I've tried to access the CCP, only a couple times would it access the CCP and normally it will just default to the fauna homepage instead. I have to enter a thread and then access the CCP. This is happening on both my Apple cell and windows laptop.

More concerning, for the last several months (maybe longer), my phone will only allow me to upload one image per thread. If I try uploading a second, it will replace the first image. I thought this was only on my cell and lived with it, but recently, I've started posting ads and need multiple images and I am experiencing the same problem on my laptop.

Any advice, solutions or similar problems?
 
Ok, may have jumped the gun. I believe my error was both files had to be present on the second device in order to add an additional photo. Once I saved the both photos to my laptop and uploaded at the same time, both were uploaded. When I try to add one, edit and then add another, it will just replace the first.

However, there is no solution for the iPhone. It one upload per post and that's it. Any additional upload will just replace the first every time.
 
Focal said:
More concerning, for the last several months (maybe longer), my phone will only allow me to upload one image per thread. If I try uploading a second, it will replace the first image. I thought this was only on my cell and lived with it, but recently, I've started posting ads and need multiple images and I am experiencing the same problem on my laptop.

Any advice, solutions or similar problems?
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Sorry, but I do not use handheld mobile devices to access the internet, and quite likely I never will. I've got enough problems with my aging vision without pushing myself rapidly towards complete blindness staring at a dinky screen all day long to do the stuff I need to do on these sites. Heck I have a 26 or 27 inch screen now and am thinking of looking around for a larger one. I hate to do anything on the net even with my smaller laptop screen.

So the point is, that if I can test new code put into this site to make it more compatible with handheld devices, then I'm not going to be using that code. I'm sure the newer versions of vBulletin are likely more compatible with handheld devices, but the word on the street is that after Internet Brands took over Jelsoft, the product went down the toilet. Having the original developers jump ship there certainly couldn't have helped. So a suitable migration path for this site is problematic.

Besides, I'm having enough problems keeping this site running without introducing even more variables to have to deal with.
 
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