• 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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Hiya Kids,

Is anyone else having problems with pages loading very slowly, or not at all?

I've been experiencing this for the past few days while using my phone, and tablet. I haven't tried using my desktop, so just wanted to ask if this is happening to other people. Trying to figure out if it's my phone or a site problem.

Thanks!

Kathy
 
I've been having to reload a page because it gets "stuck" loading. Also, the search bar disappears when I go to type.
 
Are you using regular Fauna in a browser or the Tapatalk app?
 
Insomniac101 said:
Hiya Kids,

Is anyone else having problems with pages loading very slowly, or not at all?

I've been experiencing this for the past few days while using my phone, and tablet. I haven't tried using my desktop, so just wanted to ask if this is happening to other people. Trying to figure out if it's my phone or a site problem.

Thanks!

Kathy
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I haven't seen any issues, faunaclassifieds works better than most sites, on my phone.

Croghans Reptiles said:
I've been having to reload a page because it gets "stuck" loading. Also, the search bar disappears when I go to type.
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What I have to do is, open the search bar in a new tab.
 
Haven't seen any problems on my end. But honestly the browser you use seems to make a BIG difference. I was using Firefox, but kept on running into issue after issue until finally I went with Chrome. Problems all went away, and page loads are lightning fast. Over the years, I think I have tried every browser available, and it seems that I just have to rotate through them now and again as problems overtake the current one I am using. Sometimes I have had to just stick with the one was using at the time, as after trying out the others, I found that they were even worse, or lacked a feature I considered as being critical to what I want to do on the internet.

And when I put a faster video card in my PC, that also made a noticeable difference in speed as well. I'm getting ready to update the driver on my video card, and it isn't unusual for even doing something minor like that to cause something, somewhere, to break on me.

There are a lot of things involved between you hitting a key or clicking a screen icon or using a mouse to click on a link and the requested page finally shows up on your device. If you know how to run a traceroute, just look at the number of servers this all has to go through, any one of which could dramatically affect throughput.

Seriously, the more you learn about how all this works, the more amazing it seems that it even works at all.
 
I use chrome on my Android. I assume it's the phone causing this since I have multiple issues with the phone, but only since getting it have I had issues with the site.
 
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